labor force

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Younger residents are leaving the state, likely due to cost considerations, and being replaced by older arrivals less attached to the labor force, the report said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

Japan, for example, has grown just 0.7% a year since 2000, in great part because of a shrinking population and flat labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

“A lower labor force participation rate means slower long-run economic growth,” said Gus Faucher, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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

Before 1919 was over, in an unprecedented demonstration of labor unrest, there would be thirty-six hundred work stoppages involving four million workers or one-fifth of the nation’s labor force.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler