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As pressure from the Fed’s war on inflation builds, nonfarm payrolls will begin shrinking early next year, translating to a loss of about 175,000 jobs a month during the first quarter, the bank said.
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Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
All in all, Labor Department data shows that total nonfarm employment is up 22 million from its April 2020 lows.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
Productivity, or nonfarm business employee output per hour, decreased at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter after falling at a 7.4 percent pace in the previous three months, Labor Department figures showed Tuesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
Back in 2008, the US Centers for Disease Control calculated that crop workers die from heat stress at 20 times the rate of nonfarm employees.
—Tom Philpott, Wired, 6 Aug. 2022
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Matt Egan, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
All in all, Labor Department data shows that total nonfarm employment is up 22 million from its April 2020 lows.
—Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
Productivity, or nonfarm business employee output per hour, decreased at a 4.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter after falling at a 7.4 percent pace in the previous three months, Labor Department figures showed Tuesday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2022
Back in 2008, the US Centers for Disease Control calculated that crop workers die from heat stress at 20 times the rate of nonfarm employees.
—Tom Philpott, Wired, 6 Aug. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonfarm
nonagricultural
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One tool employers currently use to fill seasonal or short-term nonagricultural positions is the H-2B visa, a temporary, non-immigrant program frequently utilized by the hospitality and tourism sectors when there are not enough American workers available.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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The bill seeks to create a new H-2C visa program to address labor shortages in nonagricultural, less-skilled, year-round jobs.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
12 Oct. 2025
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“Nonfarm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonfarm. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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