labor force
(in the United States) the body of people who are at least 16 years old and are either employed or available for employment.
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How to use labor force in a sentence
After accounting for people who have left the labor force since February 2020 and other factors, the unemployment rate is much higher than the official figure, he said.
Fed chair: Unemployment rate was closer to 10 percent, not 6.3 percent, in January | Rachel Siegel | February 10, 2021 | Washington PostThe railroad’s goal is to have all of its labor force vaccinated, the company said in a statement.
Get paid for getting a coronavirus vaccine? Amtrak offers a cash bonus to workers who get vaccinated. | Luz Lazo | February 3, 2021 | Washington PostWomen have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and the percentage of women participating in the labor force dipped below 55% in April 2020 for the first time in 34 years.
There’s no better time than now to build a better pipeline for women in tech | Andrew Nusca | January 11, 2021 | FortuneJasmine Tucker, director of research for the National Women’s Law Center, spends part of her time crunching the nation’s labor force numbers.
The attempt to make everything work can fail, pushing them out of the labor force.
Among the largest economies in the world, on average, almost half of women participate in the labor force.
Allah, Mom, and Baklava: Turkish President Uses Mothers and Kids as Political Pawns | Xanthe Ackerman | November 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 75 percent of college graduates are in the labor force.
My Commencement Speech to Rutgers’ Geniuses: Go Forth and Fail | P. J. O’Rourke | May 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fact that women now made up about half the office labor force probably played a role in this resistance.
Squares in Cubes: A History of Two Centuries of Office Culture | Wendy Smith | May 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd, yes, Swedish women are more likely to be in the labor force than their American counterparts.
It also forced existing Chinese Americans out of the labor force, and into self-employment.
‘The Search for General Tso’: The Origins of America’s Favorite Chinese Dish, General Tso’s Chicken | Marlow Stern | April 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt would not be too much to say that from domestic industry we withdrew a total of ten million of our most capable labor force.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairThe reason why Pittsburgh has been unable to secure a stable labor force is doubtless realized by the local manufacturers.
Negro Migration during the War | Emmett J. ScottA new labor force always brings ideas and ideals peculiar to itself.
Mobilizing Woman-Power | Harriot Stanton BlatchInstead of a fixed labor force we now have to deal with a body relatively free to go and come.
The Negro Farmer | Carl KelseyBecause of the lack of the labor force to develop the country planters have been led to offer higher wages, better houses, etc.
The Negro Farmer | Carl Kelsey
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