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U.S. spent $5.7 billion treating unvaccinated, TN worker shortage persists, US police use Google for your location & search history, 13.7 million Americans left full-time, "Single adults in the United States need to work 61 hours a week at minimum wage to make it across the poverty line", & ‘The pay is absolute crap’: Child-care workers are quitting rapidly, a red flag for the economy. 

Study: U.S. spent $5.7 billion for treating unvaccinated Covid-19 patients in the last 3 months - source
The data analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation found, using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as studies on health care costs, that each preventable Covid-19 hospitalization costs about $20,000.

Tennessee ended federal pandemic unemployment benefits early. Two months later, an extreme worker shortage persists. - source
Two months after Tennessee ended federal expanded pandemic unemployment benefits, qualified and willing workers are still in short supply. 

The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history - source
Geofence location and keyword warrants are new law enforcement tools that have privacy experts concerned

U.S. Census Bureau: 13.7 million Americans left full-time, year-round work through March 2021 - source
Quote from the Census Bureau: "The total number of those who worked full-time, year-round declined 13.7 million between 2019 and 2020. The number of female full-time, year-round workers decreased by about 6.2 million, while the decrease for their male counterparts was approximately 7.5 million."

Where Survival Becomes a Full-Time Job | "Single adults in the United States need to work 61 hours a week at minimum wage to make it across the poverty line" - source
Even though most of the states in the U.S. have passed their own minimum wage laws, the federal minimum wage remains unchanged at 7.25 U.S. dollars since July 2009. Taking this into consideration, it's no surprise that U.S. residents earning minimum wage on average have to work the longest to simply escape poverty, as our chart indicates.

‘The pay is absolute crap’: Child-care workers are quitting rapidly, a red flag for the economy - source
Child care employment is still down more than 126,000 positions as workers leave for higher-paying positions as bank tellers, administrative assistants and retail clerks. Parents are struggling to return to work as daycare and after-school programs dwindle.

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