If this winter has felt particularly long, cold, snowy, and miserable, that's because it actually has been. Last month, we noted how extreme weather kept an unusually high number of workers at home this season, per Bureau of Labor statistics data. But at the time, the data only ran through January, providing an incomplete comparison to other years. Well, on Friday the BLS released its February jobs report, and it showed that full-time employees again missed many workdays for weather-related reasons.
The following chart shows workdays missed, in thousands, from November through February of a given year:
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