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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. In August alone, close to 4.3 million Americans

uttered those magic words, I quit, and perhaps walked out the door. The quit rate, as it's known,

is at the highest it's been since records began to be kept in 2000. It's happening

all up and down the range of jobs. This isn't just a white-collar phenomenon. The simplest explanation.

The job market is hot, but the jobs themselves are not. We'll talk with experts about this

phenomenon in the labor market and listen to some of your stories about quitting, and then we'll check in with a key member of Berkeley's Latter-day Saints about just that,

being a Latter-day Saint in Berkeley.

That's all next on Forum after this news.

Welcome to Forum.

I'm Alexis Madrigal. In March of 2020, few people anticipated that now, a year and a half later, we'd have a booming economy in which the big problem is that businesses cannot find enough workers at the pay rates and working conditions that they had before. That's given many types of workers more leverage in their

workplaces because they can just quit. And with 10 million job openings in the United States,

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