New data out Friday shows Utah has nearly a 70% labor force participation rate, seasonally adjusted — the highest in the country — while Mississippi has the lowest, at 53.9%. The labor force ...

The recent strike by autoworkers is one signal of a changing labor market that gives more leverage to employees to demand better pay and working conditions. The post-pandemic world has seen consistent ...

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.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 695,000 health care jobs were added between January and November 2025 (1). If it hadn’t been for this robust, consistent growth, the overall ...

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 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 ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has just released its jobs report for February 2023. It shows that payroll growth was 311,000, which remains very strong. Hourly earnings grew by 4.7 percent over the ...

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is taking a growing toll on a weakening labor market, economists say. Forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg estimate the Labor Department on Friday, Aug. 1 ...

Immigrants are powering growth in the U.S. labor force, helping ease long-standing worker shortages and a historic inflation spike. Since February 2020, before the pandemic started, 2.1 million ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. A decline in the foreign-born labor force has not improved ...