labor force

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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

“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

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

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