labor pool
Example Sentences
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Nevertheless the unemployment rate remains below the historical average, in part due to a shrinking labor pool.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 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
California’s relatively high and rising unemployment rate also may reflect the surge in immigration that has added to the labor pool.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2024
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
