People are dropping out of the labor force — what if that’s a good thing?

First, the dropouts from the labor force were overwhelmingly women, which could be a really bad thing.

But combine it with a bit of data from a totally different part of the government.

Last month happened to be the first full month of a new school year.

Meanwhile, look at which segment of the workforce is still very far below its pre-pandemic level:

There are many ways to read this. Maybe the home schooling is a matter of desperate parents who learned they couldn’t trust their schools to stay open — parents forced to quit their jobs and do their best.

Or maybe three months of lockdown in 2020, plus another 16 months of tumult, have shown parents, in all sorts of ways, that their priorities were askew before now. Perhaps more mothers and fathers have decided to drop out of the labor force in order to spend more time with their children, including possibly schooling them at home.

As a result, there might just be fewer parents hiring nannies and filling day cares.

Heck, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats ought to be proud and take credit for this. In July, they launched a weekly child allowance of $300 for young children and $250 for older children. Surely, many mothers now getting $800 a week have been liberated from the need for a second family income.

This could mean that more children will spend more time with their parents. More families will have home-cooked meals, which are healthier. More parents will be around to coach Little League. More neighborhoods will have fathers hanging out at the basketball court and mothers standing on the front porch.

Labor-force participation was lower in the early 1960s, which was the golden age of the American middle class.

So maybe Biden should hold a press conference today to announce his greatest achievement — making it easier for parents to stay home.