CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s labor force participation rate peaked at 55% following an extreme drop following the COVID-19 pandemic, but a steady drop in both labor force participation and increases ...

The share of Americans actively in the workforce hit a new low in June, extending a stretch of workers increasingly exiting employment or the job search. Continued unemployment claims - which count ...

The American labor market is reaching a critical turning point that could tighten labor availability in rural industries and slow growth across the U.S. economy. A new quarterly report from CoBank’s ...

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 ...

SOLD OFF ITS AMERICAN ASSETS. THE LABOR FORCE IN IOWA IS GROWING. THAT’S ACCORDING TO IOWA WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. NEARLY 2000 PEOPLE WERE ADDED IN AUGUST, MOSTLY MOSTLY ADULTS, BETWEEN AGE 20 TO 24.

News outlets across the country like Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and the Minnesota Star Tribune have picked up on a trend: Mothers of young children are leaving the labor force (front page, ...

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September’s jobs report surprised markets with stronger-than-expected payroll growth, while the unemployment rate also rose, due to a surge in labor force participation. This divergence is explained ...

Connecticut employers added 700 jobs in July, while the jobs added in June were revised downward, according to a report released Monday by the state Department of Labor. The state’s unemployment rate ...

Minnesota lost 4,400 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate increased two-tenths of a percentage point to 3.5%, data from the state Department of Employment and Economic Development released Thursday ...

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 ...