TJ Walker warns that hospitality, retail, and construction jobs are no longer reliable fallbacks when workers lose employment. As those sectors slow, economists say companies may shift from pausing hires to cutting staff, a scenario Walker calls the floor dropping out.
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Normally, if you lose a job, you can fall back on something— hospitality, retail, construction. But those sectors, according to the data, are slowing down too. The safety net has holes in it. Think about that for a second. The backup plan doesn't exist. It's like jumping out of a plane and finding out your parachute is on backorder. And economists are saying this could get worse because if companies can't grow, they don't just stop hiring. They start cutting. The phrase used was chilling. We could go from no hiring to firing. That's not a slowdown. That's the moment the floor drops out. Ultimatize.