labor force

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By staying in the labor force during the decade when children are young, these women build experience, earnings growth and retirement funds that set their families apart financially.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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

The decline in the unemployment rate came with an asterisk: The labor force shrank by nearly 400,000 people, meaning fewer Americans were counted as unemployed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The only way the unemployment rate would rise is if layoffs rose sharply — and there’s no evidence of that — or the labor force started to grow again.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 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