Learn about the U.S. civilian labor force: who it includes, who it excludes, and how it affects unemployment stats, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

Women have made gains since many were forced out of the workforce during the pandemic. But that could be changing. During the ...

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 ...

As of February 2025, the overall labor force participation rate for women in the U.S. stands at 57.5%. Five years ago, the rate was slightly higher (58.0% in February 2020). In that same period, the ...

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 ...

While unemployment remains low, growth of the region's labor force remains a persistent challenge. The region lost 11,400 workers from May 2024 to May 2025 and stands at 1,230,000 workers.

Amid worsening employment conditions for young people, analysis results show that the longer the period of unemployment, the faster the probability of exiting the job market increases. According to a ...