It's the Ryan Lever show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone.

With us now Ben Castleman who writes about business and the economy for the New York

Times, maybe you saw his recent piece called The Great Resignation is over.

Can workers power endure?

It comes at an interesting time with the TV and movie actors and writers on strike, of

course, UPS workers, poised to possibly walk out by the end of the month.

And inflation easing a little more than expected last month, the job market largely strong,

but rents sky high in the New York context especially.

And retail jobs among those still taking the biggest pandemic era hit, those kinds of

jobs.

And President Biden planning a second speech this week on what he calls Bidenomics, hoping

American see his administration as an economic success story as he runs for re-election.

So we'll tie all these things together as much as we can and take your calls with Ben Castleman

from the Times.

Ben, thanks for coming on.

Welcome to WNYC today.

Thanks so much for having me.

Remind us what did we mean by The Great Resignation and then tell us why you think it's over?

Yeah, I mean, so I think there are actually a lot of misconceptions about sort of what

it was.

And what it was, which we all agree on, I think, was this enormous wave of people quitting

their jobs in kind of the 2021-2022 period.

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