How to Use labor force in a Sentence

labor force

noun

• The Midland area labor force grew the fastest in the state at 5.5% in August.
  — Arcelia Martin, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Most of the workers in the area are employed in the mines or in businesses that support the mines and their labor force.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• Men have been withdrawing from the labor force for decades.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• For some Americans in the labor force right now, that looks like a pension.
  — Martha C. White, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2023
• Women now make up half of the labor force for only the third time in history.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2023
• The thing that is unique right now is that such a small portion of the American labor force is unionized.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2023
• The labor force and the number of employed both remain at record high levels.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2023
• Yet the profession has seen its labor force plummet while the number of herds of their four-legged clients have soared.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• The bigger question that the industry will face is the labor force, some experts said.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
• The unemployment rate is determined by the share of Ohioans in the labor force who are employed.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2022
• The figures suggest a sharp mismatch between the skills of the labor force and the jobs being created in the market.
  — Anup Roy, Fortune Asia, 30 Mar. 2024
• The share of women in their prime working years in the labor force, at more than 77%, is near an all-time high and has helped prop up much of the economy's recent strength.
  — Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 6 Sep. 2023
• Women in their prime working years are storming back into the labor force.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 July 2023
• The state's civilian labor force grew by 803 in October, and remains at a record high level, the report said.
  — Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 17 Nov. 2023
• The string of high-profile job cuts arrives at a time when employment in the wider labor force remains robust.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 18 Jan. 2024
• But Tatum stressed that the state has always lagged in terms of its labor force participation rate.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 21 Aug. 2023
• Japan, which has the world’s third-largest economy, is struggling to repair a labor force cratered by rapid aging.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
• That will make the number of people in the platform labor force larger than the population of Poland, the EU’s fifth-largest country.
  — WIRED, 20 Nov. 2023
• As the slave trade came to an end, rice planters lost the free labor force that had performed the dangerous work of growing and harvesting rice in the marshy areas.
  — Amethyst Ganaway, Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2022
• The labor force is defined as adults who either have a job or are actively looking for one.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• The share of women in their prime working years in the labor force, at more than 77 percent, is near an all-time high and has helped prop up much of the economy’s recent strength.
  — Abha Bhattarai, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Details of the household survey showed people entering the labor force had a tough time finding a job.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 3 June 2023
• That means a shrinking labor force, which means fewer hands and minds to produce, pay taxes and support the bulging numbers of retirees.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• At the same time, the supply of workers has increased, as immigration has picked up and more people are coming off the sidelines to join the labor force.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 28 July 2023
• In California, immigrants make up one-third of the labor force.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2022
• If correct, that would mean the number of people in the platform labor force would be bigger than the population of Poland, the EU’s fifth-largest country.
  — Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2023
• While Utah ranks last in the nation for the share of children under six with both parents in the labor force, the percentage of mothers who are working has in the past five years increased to 64%.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2024
• The rate measures the proportion of workers in the labor force who do not currently have a job but are actively looking for work.
  — Sophia Voight, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
• Many have also found work that speaks to their families’ experiences and struggles in the labor force.
  — Milla Surjadi, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Other men leave the labor force to go back to school and bolster their skill set while still others are hampered by a disability, the paper said.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024