labor force

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An unusual divergence between GDP and new jobs shows worker productivity is making up for a slowdown in immigration and the labor force.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 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

The jobless rate shouldn’t change much, economists say, if the labor force isn’t really growing.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 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