Sentences with phrase «of the labor force because»

Meanwhile, the overall share out of the labor force because they're discouraged, have family responsibilities, transportation problems, illness, or a disability has stayed flat at around 1 % since the BLS started asking this question in the current form in 1994, they add.

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The labor force participation rate has fallen due to cyclical factors such as workers temporarily dropping out of the workforce because of discouragement over job prospects, but also due to structural forces such as the Baby Boomers reaching retirement age and younger workers staying in school longer.

The conventional wisdom in the economics community is that the labor force participation rate would have continued to decline even if the great recession never occurred, because as the nation ages the share of retired workers would grow.

It's because an even larger number of people, 396,000, joined the labor force than found jobs.

Gig work, whether in preference to corporate jobs or because full time work is lacking, is absorbing an ever - growing portion of the labor force.

Potential economic growth is going to slow dramatically over the coming years because of slowing growth in the labor force, due to growing demographic trends, and continued poor productivity performance.

The U.S. economy is facing a future of slow growth, mainly because the labor force is expanding less rapidly.

CBO explains that long - term growth is constrained by relatively slow labor force growth because of the ongoing retirement of the baby boomers.

In other words, for two years of economic recovery, the labor market in the U.S. has been doing only slightly better than treading water, and much of the improvement in the unemployment rate can be attributed to people dropping out of the labor force either because they've given up looking for work or because they've retired.

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.

Because the decline is being driven by unusual labor - force flows — aging workers retiring, the lure of government disability payments, discouraged workers and other factors — the jobless rate is a perplexing indicator of job - market slack and vigor.

In those cases the court deferred to the judgment of the Air Force that the free - exercise claim of a Jewish officer who wore his yarmulke on duty could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of correctional authorities that the free - exercise claim of a Black Muslim to attend Friday afternoon religious services could not be accommodated; it deferred to the judgment of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service that building a logging road through a national forest was necessary despite the damage to religious practices of Native American tribes in that area; it deferred to the Internal Revenue Service's ruling that Bob Jones University was not entitled to tax exemption because of its religiously motivated rule against interracial dating and marriage on campus; it deferred to the judgment of the secretary of labor that a religious community must pay its members the minimum wage for work they performed in the group's business although the members said they had religious objections to being paid for their work.

This form of the family is decreasing in number primarily because more wives and mothers are joining the labor force.

I know a woman who suffered through hours of labor because her baby was stuck sideways and the OB had her hand up there trying to force him to turn.

Instead of focusing on the poor families that do not qualify for Social Security retirement benefits in the first place, the remainder of this paper will focus on the families who are effectively denied full coverage because of their family forms and in spite of their input from taxes and participation in the labor force.

In terms of partner postpartum expectations, you can be assured that she will have sore muscles because the laboring process alone forces many of her muscles to contract and relax many times over 18 or more hours.

The next mayor of NYC is facing a multibillion - dollar bill for retroactive pay hikes because the entire city - labor force has been working for more than two years under expired contracts, the Independent Budget Office warned.

One top labor official said John Samuelsen, the president of Transport Workers Union Local 100, was beefing with Mr. de Blasio simply because the mayor's Vision Zero initiative initially forced bus drivers to automatically face misdemeanor charges if they injured or killed pedestrians crossing with the light in their favor.

Such a path of improvement would not have had an immediately discernible effect on the economy, because new graduates are always a small portion of the labor force.

Small gains in the education of teachers relative to other workers may not be evidence of declining quality, however; additional years of schooling may be more valuable for teachers because, as highly skilled workers, they face higher opportunity costs of staying out of the labor force.

Simply put, raising the achievement of today's students has no immediate impact on a state's economy, because these students are not yet in the labor force.

There will be a growing substitution of technology for labor and thus a steep decline in the number of teachers (and union members) per student; a dispersion of the teaching labor force, which will no longer be so geographically concentrated in districts (because online teachers can be anywhere); and a proliferation of new online providers and choice options, attracting away students, money, and jobs.

While I show that the program is likely to have lasting effects on students because they are more apt to attend college, it would be useful to determine the long - term effects of APIP by observing the students affected by APIP when they go to college and into the labor force.

Ford was forced to idle its Oakville, Ontario, plant because of a shortage of transmission parts because of labor violence at one of Ford's Indian suppliers.Indian supplier Rico Auto Industries in the city of Gurgaon is the supplier causing the shortages.

At one point he and his grandfather only escape death because of a very fortunate coincidence, but shortly after that incident he and his father are taken prisoner and forced into slave labor under terrible circumstances.

O'Driscoll — long weak recovery; U-3 unemployment low because of people who have left the labor force

Labor, on the other hand, is almost forced into attacking the Greens because of the long - run stigma that News Corp papers have attached to any such alliance.

Because of the education requirements and low pay, many workers transfer to other occupations or leave the labor force to take care of family responsibilities, to return to school, or for other reasons.

Due to a welfare system that guarantees government jobs, unemployment among Kuwaitis is less than three percent but is rising because of a growing influx of young Kuwaitis into the labor force.

Carroll added that sales of existing homes are poised to increase in the coming months too because much of the labor force stepped away from new construction to work for companies that provide a variety of property maintenance, including tree removal and lawn debris cleanup.

The unemployment rate was unchanged only because the labor force shrank faster than the number of employed persons.

Unfortunately, this time period also saw a rise in forced labor in the world of area rugs, particularly in India, and because of this, many European countries cut off trade with Indian carpet manufacturers.