Sentences with phrase «low labor force participation rate»

Spader's presentation addressed past and projected movements in the homeownership rate, and Calabria dove into why reversing weak productivity and the low labor force participation rate are necessary to boost the economy.

Our lowest skill workers already have a relatively low labor force participation rate and high unemployment even six years into the economic recovery.

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In fact, a large enigma remains unresolved, in that the labor force participation rate has been trending lower for a long time and has returned to levels last seen in the 1970s.

As a result, the labor force participation rate, which measures the percentage of Americans who are working or looking for work, fell to 62.8 % — the lowest level since 1978.

This data shouldn't change the Fed's interest - rate strategy, as a rising labor force participation rate will put a lid on inflation regardless of how it's done, but it should lower our confidence that the Fed can solve the problem of a bifurcated workforce, in which a large chunk of workers are getting left behind, simply through interest rate policy.

Then... this is the best part... he made it clear that a 6.5 percent unemployment rate would not necessarily be the threshold for raising rates, then went on a long discussion of the conditions under which he would NOT raise rates, including if the unemployment rate dropped mostly due to cyclical declines in the labor force participation rate rather than gains in unemployment, as well as persistently low inflation.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

The labor force participation rate has not been this low — 63.3 percent — since 1979, a time when women were less likely to be working.

The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent, its lowest level since 2001, but for the wrong reason: labor force participation fell by two - tenths of a percent.

The labor force participation rate is at its lowest level since 2002.

Productivity gains have been weak, the participation rate (meaning the percentage of the labor force in employment) declined to 62.6 % in June — the lowest level since 1977 — and hourly wage growth was flat in the same month.

The unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.9 %, remaining at its lowest level since 2008, while the labor force participation rate continued to rebound, rising slightly to 62.9 % as the strong labor market encouraged more people to start, or resume, looking for jobs.

A large portion of the improvement can be attributed to a decline in the labor force participation rate, which is at close to a 40 - year low.

The US has an extremely low rate of labor force participation, because there are no jobs to be had, and discouraged workers who can not find jobs are not measured in the unemployment rate.

The unemployment rate continued to fall in April, reaching another post-financial crisis low of 4.4 %, although this was partly offset by a marginal decline in the labor force participation rate.

That understates the problem as the labor force participation rate for low - skill workers is 44.5 %.

There are those who look at the high unemployment rates and low labor force participation of low - skill American workers and current residents and see a labor shortage.

Flake argues that America needs more low - skill workers — even though America's low - skill workforce has the country's highest unemployment rate and by far the lowest labor - force participation rate.

We are almost six years into our economic recovery and the unemployment rate for our lowest - skill workers is still 8.4 percent, while the labor force participation rate for that population is 46.3 percent.

New York's labor force participation rate dropped to 60.7 percent in 2014, the lowest level in more than a decade.

At the same time, labor force participation rates are at an all - time low and wages are stagnant.

And while refugees ultimately — after a period of six to ten years — have higher labor force participation and employment rates, and have similar welfare participation rates, relative to U.S. - born residents, they often enter the U.S. with low human capital and language skills and have initially poor labor market outcomes and high rates of welfare usage.

The unemployment rate fell to 5.9 %, its lowest point since July 2008, but much of the drop in unemployment stemmed from a continuing decline in the labor force participation rate.

Now this jobs report and the Labor Force Participation Rate hovering at 40 year lows there are almost 100 million people in America either unemployed, underemployed, or just given up looking for work.

Given global competition in the labor markets, if our wages on the low end don't reduce, isn't that a significant reason why our labor force participation rate so low?

Admittedly, however, the fall in number of unemployed was partially due to the labor force participation rate ticking lower from 65.2 % to 65.1 %.

And while the jobless rate ticked lower from 4.2 % to 4.1 %, that was largely due to the labor force participation rate deteriorating from 63.1 % to 62.7 %.

The subpar growth reflects weak productivity growth, which has averaged less than 1 % over the past five years, and a low rate of labor force participation that remains at levels last seen in the 1970s.

Following the Great Recession, the labor force participation rate dipped to a historical low.

The unemployment rate is low but the labor force participation rate is at 40 + year lows.