Labor Force Participation

Disabled Workers Shrink Labor Force

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Video, Labor Force, Unemployment, Social Security, Economics, Social Security Disability, Unemployment Rate, Employment, Unemployment Benefits, Labor Force Participation, Social Security Disability Claims, Business News

More than 1.6 million Americans have signed up for Social Security disability benefits since the recession, taking themselves out of the work force --...

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Baby Boomers To Blame For Job Market Weakness: Study

Laura Rowley | Posted 02.07.2012

Read More: Video, Baby Boomers, Baby Boomer Demographic Trends, Retirement, Labor Force Participation, Job Market Weakness, Working-Longer, Labor-Force-Participation-Rate, Post-50s, Fifty News

Retiring baby boomers are the culprits behind a significant decline in the labor force participation rate (LFPR) in the U.S. over the last dozen years...

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Today's Educated, Working Women Are Worse Off Economically: Study

Evan Allis | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Boomer Women, Gender Gap, Divorce Rates, Labor Force Participation, National Bureau of Economic Research, Education Gap, New York University, Fifty News

A recent working paper from NYU professors Raquel Fernandez and Joyce Cheng Wong suggests that a steady rise in divorce rates throughout the 1960s and...

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Lila Shapiro

Youth Unemployment Crisis Has Longterm Implications For Teens, The Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Labor Market, Labor Force, Jobs Crisis, Third World America, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Youth Unemployment 2011, Jobs, Youth Unemployment Rate, Labor Force Participation Rate, Labor Force Participation, Youth Unemployment, Business News

As we look forward to this Friday's August unemployment snapshot from the Department of Labor, one part of the picture is already in focus: this was t...

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Labor Force Participation Lowest In 30 Years

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: National Employment Law Project, Jobs Crisis, Unemployed, Labor Force, Unemployment Rate, Wells Fargo, Jobless, Hiring, Labor Force Participation, Business News

The jobs crisis may be even worse than it seems. Times are tough for the nation's unemployed, and many have given up looking for work, dropping out...

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