How to Use labor force in a Sentence

labor force

noun

• The Midland area labor force grew the fastest in the state at 5.5% in August.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Latinos are now the main drivers of the U.S. labor force growth rate, which has slowed down over the past decades.
  — Amaris Alanis Ribeiro, Hartford Courant, 3 July 2024
• Most of the workers in the area are employed in the mines or in businesses that support the mines and their labor force.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• How many people are added to the labor force every year?
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
• Men have been withdrawing from the labor force for decades.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• For some Americans in the labor force right now, that looks like a pension.
  — Martha C. White, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• The state’s unemployment rate increased to 3.3% and the labor force was flat over the month, the DEED news release said.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2024
• Women now make up half of the labor force for only the third time in history.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• The thing that is unique right now is that such a small portion of the American labor force is unionized.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
• The labor force and the number of employed both remain at record high levels.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
• Yet the profession has seen its labor force plummet while the number of herds of their four-legged clients have soared.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The bigger question that the industry will face is the labor force, some experts said.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate is determined by the share of Ohioans in the labor force who are employed.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• Part of the rationale for large families in the South during the era of crop labor was to birth their labor force.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2022
• The figures suggest a sharp mismatch between the skills of the labor force and the jobs being created in the market.
  — Anup Roy, Fortune Asia, 30 Mar. 2024
• One of the most dynamic parts of the labor force during recessions is part-time work.
  — Daniel Altman, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• The proportion of the whole labor force that is choosing to work part-time hours is at its highest since early 2020.
  — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2022
• The unemployment rate ticked up to 3.7% as more people entered the labor force and wage gains slowed.
  — David Harrison, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• Future labor forces will shrink around the world because of the spread of sub-replacement birthrates today.
  — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
• In all states, women were found to be less likely than men to participate in the labor force.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 7 May 2024
• The share of women in their prime working years in the labor force, at more than 77%, is near an all-time high and has helped prop up much of the economy's recent strength.
  — Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• Women in their prime working years are storming back into the labor force.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The state's civilian labor force grew by 803 in October, and remains at a record high level, the report said.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• The string of high-profile job cuts arrives at a time when employment in the wider labor force remains robust.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• But Tatum stressed that the state has always lagged in terms of its labor force participation rate.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 21 Aug. 2023
• Japan, which has the world’s third-largest economy, is struggling to repair a labor force cratered by rapid aging.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• That will make the number of people in the platform labor force larger than the population of Poland, the EU’s fifth-largest country.
  — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
• As the slave trade came to an end, rice planters lost the free labor force that had performed the dangerous work of growing and harvesting rice in the marshy areas.
  — Amethyst Ganaway, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• The labor force is defined as adults who either have a job or are actively looking for one.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• Last month, the labor force participation rate — the percentage of the population that is either employed or actively seeking work — was unchanged at 62.7%.
  — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024