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It’s currently the best time for Americans to switch jobs compared to any point in at least two decades, per new data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta published over Labor Day weekend.
🔢 By the numbers… US employees who left for a new employer earned a median annual raise of 8.5% in July, a record high based on federal data going back to early 2002. The pay gap between workers who switched jobs and those who stayed put also came in at an all-time high (2.7 percentage points).
🇺🇸 Zoom out: Across America, the Great Resignation is still in full swing. Roughly 4.2 million workers quit their jobs in July – near the record highs of the past year – and there are still ~2 job openings listed for each one of the 5.7 million unemployed persons in the country.
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🇺🇸📉 Reading and math scores among US 4th-grade students fell to their lowest levels in at least two decades over the pandemic, per test results published yesterday by the National Center for Education Statistics.
🏫 A school district in a small town in southwest Missouri told parents it’ll start to spank unruly children on the butt with paddles this fall – with parental consent – when “other means of discipline have failed,” a punishment that’s currently legal in 19 states.
🏛️🗳️ Maxwell Frost became the first Gen Z candidate to win a congressional primary last week in Florida, while fellow Gen Z-ers Karoline Leavitt and State Rep. Tim Baxter are both running in an upcoming House primary in New Hampshire.
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