FEC’s McQueen Dispels Myth That ‘People Just Don’t Want to Work’

Cites 4 Factors Thwarting Full Recovery

  • Clyde McQueen, executive director of the Full Employment Council (FEC) told The Kansas City Globe during an interview at his office Monday, “People want to work” but four obstacles, training, transportation, inadequate means of obtaining child care, and stable housing, remain as major obstacles. KCG PHOTO/Rick Abel
    Clyde McQueen, executive director of the Full Employment Council (FEC) told The Kansas City Globe during an interview at his office Monday, “People want to work” but four obstacles, training, transportation, inadequate means of obtaining child care, and stable housing, remain as major obstacles. KCG PHOTO/Rick Abel

Despite the gradual subsiding of restrictions during the post COVID-19 pandemic, a full recovery for the U.S. labor market has yet to be realized amid snide comments suggesting that stimulus payments and generous unemployment benefits have spoiled people “Who just don’t want to work.”

Clyde McQueen, however, who for the past 34 years has run the Full Employment Council (FEC) in Kansas City, sees things differently. “That’s not it at all,” he strongly refutes. “People do want to work.” Citing four major factors stalling a full recovery, he explains,” It’s just that the dynamics have changed.”

 

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