Jan 2024 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the January 2024 snapshot and it’s a huge jump in enrollments. For January 2024, there were 140,000 new social security enrollees over the age of…
No Nurses, No Hospitals
We have spoken a great deal about labor shortages and the coming baby boomer demographic time bomb but today we’re going to focus on the real life consequences and impacts…
No Rate Cuts in March!
By now everyone knows the Fed is not planning on rate cuts in March but most people don’t understand what’s going on right now but we continue our theory. Demographics…
Dec 2023 – Social Security Enrollments
The social security office released the December 2023 snapshot number so we now have a complete picture of social security enrollments for the entire year of 2023. The total enrollments…
Labor Shortages: Utah
It’s January 2024, do you know where your labor is? The State of Utah doesn’t seem to know but it has some good ideas. From KSLRadio: What feels like chronic…
Nov 2023 – Social Security Enrollments
For the month of November, social security added 130,000 new enrollments bringing the total for 2023 thru November to 1.223 million recipients. We also updated our projections based on the…
Labor Participation Down 676,000
The big news out today was a huge drop in the labor participation out and many seemed surprised by it but we’re not sure why. We’ve been writing about the…
Oct 2023 – Social Security Enrollments Up 132,000
The Social Security Administration publishes a monthly snapshot of social security recipients which you can find the October report here. According to the over 65 enrollment numbers, there was an…
Labor Shortages: Minnesota
The State of Minnesota continues to have labor shortages and retail continues to struggle so much that some retail stores are shortening their hours. From MPRNews: The labor challenges prompted…
Labor Shortages: Vermont
JetBlue is discontinuing flights from Burlington to New York. The reason? Labor shortages of course! JetBlue cited the FAA actions in announcing its decision to end its Burlington service, which…