The curious case of the missing workforce
Fed's rate call next week to be affected by how to attract these workers back into the labour pool
Washington
WHEN Shalika Tisinger begins looking for a job this summer, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell will be rooting for her. Ms Tisinger, 33, dropped out of college at 19 and bounced through a series of low-paying jobs. Struggling to find a solid career path, she went back to school in 2014. In May she'll graduate from Atlanta Technical College and expects to be certified as a surgical technician by the end of July. "There is no way around it," she said. "You have to have some kind of degree to get a good position."
There are a lot of Shalika Tisingers in the US and just how many of them can be drawn back int…
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