Why Are Workers Stuck? Not Enough Employers

Published on April 20, 2026

What makes recessions so harmful to workers is the freezing of movement. The gears of the labor market — gears that are constantly shuffling workers from job to job to unemployment to job again — slow to a crawl.

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