In the latest jobs report, out Friday, there’s some details to like and and some to be worried about. On the “maybe we should worry about this” side, the labor force participation rate — aka the ...

CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s labor force participation rate peaked at 55% following an extreme drop following the COVID-19 pandemic, but a steady drop in both labor force participation and increases ...

SOLD OFF ITS AMERICAN ASSETS. THE LABOR FORCE IN IOWA IS GROWING. THAT’S ACCORDING TO IOWA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. NEARLY 2000 PEOPLE WERE ADDED IN AUGUST, MOSTLY MOSTLY ADULTS, BETWEEN AGE 20 TO 24.

The Georgia Department of Labor recently reported the state’s unemployment rate hit 3.5% in May, its lowest point in a year. But something else dropped, too: the size of the labor force. Georgia’s ...

During the pandemic, mothers saw a dramatic increase in workforce participation levels. however, since the beginning of 2025, those levels have seen continuous declines eliminating their pandemic ...

A new labor market analysis based on June 2025 data revealed that a significant number of women have left the U.S. labor force this year. According to the National Women's Law Center (NWLC) review of ...

In just three months, more than 1 million foreign-born workers disappeared from the U.S. labor force. Let that sink in. From March to June 2025, the foreign-born labor force shrank from approximately ...

The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is explained by an even stepdown of labor supply and demand, meaning slowing ...