MOScout Sunday6: COVID - STL Downtown - Childcare Workers - Twitter - Baseball and more...

1. End of the pandemic as seen through excess deaths.

Source: Robert Lawrence.

2. But STL’s downtown hasn’t recovered from COVID.

Source: Axios.

3. Still down about 200,000 childcare workers since 2019.

Source: Philip Cohen.

4. Ripley County’s hot housing market, and not as hot labor market.  This is a 10-year differential between housing prices and wage growth.

Source: USAFACTS.

5. Like everything else, views of Twitter are colored by partisanship.

Source: Pew Research.

6. Where the longest and shortest home run walls are.

Source: Reddit