Eric Hovde: “They paid people more during COVID not to work than to work.”

“Only 6 out of 10Americans are working in our labor force today. We have such a low labor participation rate. And you know, They paid people more during COVID not to work than to work. I mean, how insanity was that? But we've got too many people sitting on the sidelines, young people that are healthy, that should be in our labor force and we need to do that.” (05:10–05:14)

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