The Quits Rate
I had never heard of that phrase before this past weekend…but apparently when measuring the number of workers who quit their jobs over a certain period of time, and comparing it with the workforce as a whole, it’s called the “quits rate”.
We knew earlier this month that 4.5 million people quit their jobs in the U.S. in November alone, an all-time one-month record. Friday, the federal government shared information on a state-by-state basis.
The national “quits rate” was 3 percent in November…Iowa was slightly below that, with 2.9 percent of the Iowa workforce dropping out in that month.
Georgia and New Hampshire tied for the highest quit rate, at 4.5 percent…meaning about 1 in every 22 works in each state quit their jobs in November 2021. At the same time, each state had among the lowest unemployment rates in the country. In fact, four of the top five “quits rate” states have the lowest jobless rates.
Some are tying this to the increase in COVID cases due to omicron…the more people who get sick and need care, in theory, the more people drop out of the workforce to care for those sick folks.
But then again, the numbers were before the attempted national vaccination mandates were struck down by courts…so perhaps some folks left due to not wanting to be forced to get the jab, and now that a court has even thrown out the vaccine mandate for federal employees, they may come back.
I just have one basic question, and no one yet can give me a good answer…how are all these people who are quitting their jobs living? So much of this phenomenon doesn’t make sense…but I fear the answer may ultimately be a destruction of American work ethic, the desire to let government pick up the tab for our basic lifestyle.
This country did not get to be the greatest nation God ever created with that new philosophy…and it will surely crumble if this quits rate becomes more popular.
