people returning to work. but it may not be that simple. there are signs a broader shift may be remaking the company in much bigger ways making the road ahead harder to see. let me show you something about our employment picture. look, prepandemic we re at 3.5%. right now at 5.5%. but the key has been the labor participation rate. so these numbers may look good, but this is only among people who are actively looking for work or in the job market. let me show you the labor participation rate here. so right now among men and women, as of april of 21, it is down basically year over year because of covid. you can see here, 1.6% among men. basically the same among women. over all the change. what does 1.6% translate to? 3.5 million actual people, 3.5 million fewer people in the workforce. how does this translate where the economy is today to where it was in the past? our labor force participation rate is essentially where it was in january of 1977. think about what the workforce
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