The labor force participation rate — how much of the working age population has a job or is looking for one — held at 62.7% percent last month, according to the latest jobs report released Friday.

The U.S. is experiencing its largest immigration wave in generations, driven by millions of people from around the world seeking personal safety and economic opportunity. Immigrants are swelling the ...

Near the top of Table A1 of the December Jobs report is a count of people who are “not in the labor force,” but currently want a job. These are folks who aren’t working currently and haven’t actively ...

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The American labor force is becoming less American. Newly-released data from the Center for Immigration Studies is sounding the alarm on the declining US labor force, by showing fewer native-born ...

Employment growth has consistently come in above pre-pandemic estimates of the rate needed for unemployment to stay near its long-run natural rate. Even so, unemployment has held steady, which raises ...

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 ...