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The Southwest Michigan Labor Force is shrinking again! After consistent post-pandemic growth in the number of people actively working or seeking jobs, MIWorks observed more workers 'dropping out of the race' in October. In a 'big picture view', the job service and training agency said four percent fewer workers are in the Labor Force now than three years ago, prior to the pandemic. That means that 5,400 fewer workers are available to fill job vacancies in Berrien, Cass and Van Buren Counties than in October, 2019, prior to the pandemic. Almost 1,700 headed for the sidelines in just a month (September to October, 2022), a 1.3 % decline in the three-county workforce. Only a fraction of those people were in the hospitality sector, which normally slows down in the fall. And they were not balanced out by the expected increase in retail employment usually driven by the coming holiday period. What happened to those workers over the past three years? Where have they gone? M

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