labor

Autonomous trucking could be a boon for the freight industry, thanks to a combination of lower labor costs and less fuel waste.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Starbucks also has been stressing improved service in an effort to regain customers, along with spending on training, labor and better-looking cafes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

About 19% of Americans age 65 and older participated in the labor force in 2025, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

Cheaper Mexican workers had been welcomed during World War I, and were still coming north more casually back then, even as a U.S. labor group was beginning to agitate for organizing American migrant farm workers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Following their capture at the Bay of Pigs, Pepe San Román, Erneido Oliva, and more than eleven hundred members of the invading brigade were sentenced to thirty years of hard labor.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin

“I don’t like using the word ‘bucket list,’ but all these things are labors of love,” Hoffs says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He labors seven days a week as a construction worker, but goes out dancing every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 4, 2026

Much has been said, notably by the critic Harold Bloom, about the agony of the artist who labors under the shadow of the greats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

After all, since 1776, millions of Irishmen and women and their descendants have helped make America great through their labors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025

The crew staggered like dead men, utterly beaten from their labors, trying to pitch tents so they could crawl in to sleep.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

The noise of backhoes, cranes and bulldozers echoed across Colombia's quake-hit cities on Sunday as workers labored to remove rubble, though the chance of finding survivors was slim a week after the disaster.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Really labored breathing, kind of tugging in their belly, tugging between their ribs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Thus far, however, this effort has yielded only a few dozen genetically modified long-haired mice, which evokes the Aesopian adage about the mountain that labored and brought forth a mouse.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

These unsung masters labored on the magnificent frescoes that cover virtually every inch of the two-story Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

Sitting on the perch, I feel Father breathing beside me—tense, labored.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

That, plus his aversion to economic ideology, helped craft a reputation for the Fed as an independent, technocratic institution laboring to do a good job for the American people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

With a band laboring in the pit, the stage became a dance floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

A quarter-century Jean’s senior, David is trying to finish a stalled book project, laboring in the shadow of his more prolific and successful wife, Ann.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

We know that underneath, we’re laboring frantically to keep going — sometimes, even just to stay afloat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

Hatun described his time laboring on the roads and bridges, and how some of the men had been hard-working while others were lazy.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis