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The long-term look at US labor force participation is ugly and getting worse
There are so many things to like about the US economy but this is an ugly chart. US labor force participation fell another 0.3 percentage points in June to 61.5% and excluding the pandemic, is now at the lowest since 1976, when women still hadn't fully entered the labor force. Fo
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