labor force

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An unusual divergence between GDP and new jobs shows worker productivity is making up for a slowdown in immigration and the labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

“Coming out of Covid, the labor force saw a spate of dynamism that it hadn’t seen in a long time,” said Chad Syverson, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

The monthly breakeven rate was much higher in the 1970s at 185,000 jobs, as women and baby boomers poured into the labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

In the longer run, the labor force could continue to shrink.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison