Labor Day is much more than the official end of summer and the marker of a three-day weekend. It was founded as — and remains — an opportunity to thank workers for their contributions to our country.

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A majority of the nation’s 36 million workers ages 25 to 34 have not completed a four-year college degree. In 2023, there were 19 million young workers who had some college or less education, ...

America’s post-pandemic employment picture is an unsettling paradox. On the one hand, job totals are finally back above pre-pandemic highs — and unemployment rates skirt 50-year lows. But at the same ...

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President Trump wants to get America’s vast army of “dropout” men back into the workforce. Attention to this problem is long overdue. Nearly 7 million men in the prime of life — over a tenth of the 25 ...

Forty is the perilous age for a workingman. After that he is the first to suffer in a layoff, the last to regain employment. Employers are exhibiting an increasing preference for younger men, at the ...

American men are opting out of the workforce at unforeseen rates. For many, it's not an issue of not being able to find a job. They have simply opted out altogether. The Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

The labor force participation rate for prime-age men has been declining for decades. About 14% of millennial males at age 25 are not in the labor force, compared with 7% of baby boomer males when they ...

Women generally have long hours of housework and care duties on top of a job, while men have less time-sensitive chores like lawn mowing. By Claire Cain Miller In countries around the world, women do ...