labor pool

Example Sentences

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While healthcare spending has benefited the economy, population trends could also limit the pace of growth in coming years by constraining the labor pool, as Schmid said this past week.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Mexico overtook China as the top foreign-goods supplier to the U.S. in 2023 and has become its largest buyer, owing to deep regional manufacturing integration and a large, young, low‑cost labor pool.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

The American caregiving system is failing because it was never designed for a society of aging singles, widowed elders, adult children living states away and a shrinking labor pool.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025

Labor costs have also been increasing in recent years, and the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids have added a destabilizing effect on the construction labor pool, industry observers have said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

But the skilled butchers were now a small part of a huge, mostly unskilled labor pool.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield