labor force

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Companies such as GM are factoring in the sunk costs of existing infrastructure, established supply chains and a trained labor force that costs less, said Mike Tyndall, a senior global autos analyst at HSBC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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

Many farmers simply couldn’t produce the food we all enjoy without a labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Start with the decline in the unemployment rate: The chief reason why it fell was because almost 400,000 people dropped out of the labor force.

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