A substantial and unexpected rise in women’s labor force participation rates over the past few years has been a key factor ...

"You would take, let's say for example, the seven million prime-age ... decline in work force participation among working-age ...

The historic labour force highs prime-age women notched last year do not portend rosy days ahead. The US economy notched a welcome, if puzzling, milestone in 2024 when the labour force ...

While labor force participation was nearly universal in the 1950s for prime-age men (98%), today more than one in ten prime-age men is out of the labor force. We sat down with these men to talk ...

And this is something we are working incredibly hard to incentivize, because there is a large population of prime-age men and women ... had the labor-force-participation rate in 2016 been at ...

But it may never make it back to pre-pandemic highs. "We do compare prime-age labor force participation to the pre-covid level, but the pre-covid level was considered fairly strong," Zhao said.