Mike Rowe Is Right: There’s “No Such Thing” as a Non-Essential Worker

Blue-collar icon Mike Rowe recently made it clear he's not a fan of the terms essential" and non-essential" worker. The problem with such a view, Rowe said, is that such terms have little actual meaning and the economy makes no such distinction.

There's something tricky with the language going on here, because with regard to an economy, I don't think there is any such thing as a nonessential worker," Rowe said. This is basically a quilt...and if you start pulling on jobs and tugging on careers over here and over there, the whole thing will bunch up in a weird way."