labor force

Example Sentences

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Addressing supply chain vulnerabilities requires prioritizing critical goods and re-skilling the labor force over many years.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Although the budget documents note the potential for gains from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI, each of which have a significant labor force in the state, the government refrained from estimating the impact.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The ECB calculates that while workers aged 65 years and above account for just 3% of the eurozone’s labor force, the equivalent rates in the U.S. and Japan are 7% and 14% respectively.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

Migrants contributed 4.2 million workers to the eurozone labor force between 2021 and 2025, increasing their share to 10%.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 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