labor force

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Connecticut’s labor force is smaller than prepandemic, and local officials are studying ways to accelerate home construction and expand training programs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

With more people exiting the labor force, the so-called participation rate fell in March to 61.9%, to mark the lowest level in nearly five years.

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