"There are so many women in such dire financial straits that, despite the long hours and poor pay, they are willing to take those jobs anyway," said one recruitment professional.

"Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday grilled Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for exaggerating the number of jobs that would be created by President Biden's $2 trillion-plus spending proposal.

Many of the attempted conversions made in the period between Election Day and Joe Biden’s inauguration did not move forward, according to documents obtained by NBC News.

The number of job vacancies soared to nearly 15 million by mid-March, up from 10 million before the pandemic began.

The White House is also preparing to step up negotiations over Biden’s $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure package with Congress’s return to Washington next week.

In the former Soviet Union, nearly every decision people made -- from their jobs to their hobbies to their clothing -- was politicized. Personal choices that were insufficiently collectivist for Communist Party officials negatively impacted careers, housing, and rations, which were allocated by political pull and socialist virtue-signaling rather than merit. Some decisions, such as starting a small business or storing some extra food, could result in the gulag or a firing squad. The personal was the political.

The White House is also preparing to step up negotiations over Biden’s $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure package with Congress’s return to Washington next week.

The White House is also preparing to step up negotiations over Biden’s $2 trillion jobs and infrastructure package with Congress’s return to Washington next week.

America doesn't have a jobs problem. It has a pathways-to-jobs problem problem. Our economy is producing jobs -- there were 7.4 million open jobs as of February in the midst of a pandemic -- but our education system isn't preparing people to fill those jobs.