MOScout Sunday6: Workforce - Partisan Economic Divide - Trust in Government - Flu Season and more...

We’ll start with what’s on everyone’s mind of course… workforce!

1. Latest workforce data: The U.S. labor force participation rate dipped in October, to 62.2% from 62.3%.

Source: St. Louis Federal Reserve.

2. Childcare might be the number one workforce issue right now. Wall Street Journal: “Childcare problems appear to be keeping many Americans away from their jobs. The number of people with a job but not at work due to childcare issues hit a record last month.”

Source: Wall Street Journal.

3. And interesting, more disabled people in the workforce.

Source: Axios.

4. Fascinating shift during my lifetime: rich folks vote Democratic now, and poor folks vote Republican.  For what it’s worth, NYTimes’ David Brooks thinks it’s actually an education divide: “Americans with a college education and Americans without a college education no longer just have different ideas about, say, the role of government, they have created rival ways of life. Americans with a college education and Americans without a college education have different relationships to patriotism and faith, they dress differently, enjoy different foods and have different ideas about corporal punishment, gender and, of course, race.”

Source: Bruce Mehlman.

5 & 6. Gallup polling shows decline in trust in federal government over past 25 years.  But turst in state and local government has held up.

Source: Gallup.

Source: Gallup.

7 & 8. Flu season is coming.  Get that shot – especially if you’re older.

Source: Our World In Data.

Source: Our World In Data.