labor force

noun

: workforce

Examples of labor force in a Sentence

the corporation has a labor force of nearly 100,000 people

Recent Examples on the Web For white workers, the labor force participation rate ticked higher to 62.3% last month, compared to June’s rate of 62.2%. —

Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024 Thousands of working parents in Connecticut require child care to be able to participate in the labor force. —

Erica E. Phillips, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024 In Baltimore’s pilot, preliminary results showed participants’ labor force participation increased from 64% to 71%, though their unemployment rate remained more than twice that of average Baltimore residents. —

Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2024 Earlier this year, the labor force participation rate (the percentage of the working-age population that’s actively engaged in the workforce, either by working or by looking for a job) for Black workers 16 and older hit 64%, a 16-year high. —

Alicia Wallace, CNN, 4 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for labor force

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