U.S. manufacturing experienced a substantial decline in employment from 2000 to 2010 due largely to the 2008 Great Recession but rebounded – until the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Despite these fluctuations, it began inching up again in 2021. But the renewed upswing doesn’t mean…
Category: Workforce/Employment
Working Moms Depend on Child Care
In 2021, more than 29 million women (37.5%) ages 18-54 were mothers of children aged 14 or younger, this according to the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED). Of these mothers, 20.9 million (71.8%) were in the…
40% Don’t Take All Their Vacation Time, 50% Don’t “Unplug”
Forty percent of American workers who received paid vacation as a job benefit did not use all of their available paid vacation days. In addition, half (50%) did not unplug while on vacation, with one in four reporting they worked…
60% of Americans Satisfied With Ability to Get Ahead
Sixty percent of Americans are happy with the opportunity for a person in the U.S. to get ahead by working hard, according to Gallup’s Mood of the Nation survey. This is up from the 54% last year, which was comparable…