How to Use labor force in a Sentence
labor force
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The Midland area labor force grew the fastest in the state at 5.5% in August.
—Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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How many people are added to the labor force every year?
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
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Men have been withdrawing from the labor force for decades.
—Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
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For some Americans in the labor force right now, that looks like a pension.
—Martha C. White, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
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Women now make up half of the labor force for only the third time in history.
—Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
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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
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The labor force and the number of employed both remain at record high levels.
—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
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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
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The bigger question that the industry will face is the labor force, some experts said.
—Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
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The unemployment rate is determined by the share of Ohioans in the labor force who are employed.
—Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Women in their prime working years are storming back into the labor force.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
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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
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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
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But Tatum stressed that the state has always lagged in terms of its labor force participation rate.
—Ralph Chapoco, al, 21 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As more people enter the labor force and look for work, and some have trouble finding employment, the rate stays up.
—David Lightman, Sacramento Bee, 13 May 2024
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The share of women in their prime working years in the labor force, at more than 77 percent, is near an all-time high and has helped prop up much of the economy’s recent strength.
—Abha Bhattarai, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
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India has one of the lowest female labor force participation rates in the world, at about 25%, the ILO said.
—Anup Roy, Fortune Asia, 30 Mar. 2024
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Washington Post Women in their prime working years who are in the labor force peaked this May, but the gains for those with kids under the age of five has plateaued due to the high costs of child care.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 29 July 2024
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Details of the household survey showed people entering the labor force had a tough time finding a job.
—Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2023
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That means a shrinking labor force, which means fewer hands and minds to produce, pay taxes and support the bulging numbers of retirees.
—Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
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At the same time, the supply of workers has increased, as immigration has picked up and more people are coming off the sidelines to join the labor force.
—Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 July 2023
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