Below is a rough draft of my thesis statement. Would you please help me to strengthen it by shorting it while punching the same? Thank you

While labor force participation rates show that the unemployment rate may not be entirely accurate, unemployment has been a growing problem since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States in March 2020, causing a lack of economic opportunity in need to be stabilized and reversed; these issues negatively affect the economy as a whole, and the nation has suffered resulting in the loss of employment opportunities.