How to Use labor force in a Sentence

labor force

noun
Definition of labor forcenext
Synonyms for labor forcenext
  • The Midland area labor force grew the fastest in the state at 5.5% in August.
    — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The backbone of the Bangladeshi labor force in 2050 will be today’s youth.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • In comparison, 63% of U.S. adults are in the labor force.
    — Astrid Galván, Axios, 7 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Women who quit were more likely than men to take a break from the labor force, according to the research.
    — Dallas News, 29 July 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 figure includes both gig and full-time workers, and is about a quarter of the country’s total labor force.
    — Laura He, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • According to the report, part of this is due to the fact that gender roles are lagging behind labor force trends.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 31 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • In fact, according to the World Bank, the gender gap in the country’s labor force participation, which stood at 55% for women and 72% for men last year, is higher than other high-income nations.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Change in immigration policy could affect the sector’s labor force.
    — Ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024

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