labor market

noun

: the number of workers who are available to be hired

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Jenna Hinrichsen is the director of recruitment strategy and labor market analytics. Jenna Hinrichsen, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 Rising unemployment for Black Americans may not be the only crack in the labor market data. Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 5 Aug. 2025 Trump claims that his economy is strong, and the data has mostly borne that out – with several important caveats – until the jobs report on Friday showed substantial weakening in the labor market. David Goldman, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2025 Until Friday, analysts had little confidence that the U.S. Federal Reserve was about to deliver an interest rate cut, but last week’s revisions to labor market data have led many to bet in favor of Jerome Powell cutting at the Fed’s next meeting in September. Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for labor market

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“Labor market.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20market. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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