Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. The latest jobs report warns policymakers that immigration ...

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 ...

Women exited the U.S. labor force at a record pace in 2025. A national survey by Catalyst reveals caregiving pressures as the ...

Evidence suggests Trump administration immigration policies are shrinking the size of the immigrant labor force, and the broader U.S. labor pool in recent months, according to economists CNBC spoke ...

As millions of Americans gather Monday to celebrate Labor Day, federal data shows how President Trump's immigration policies are reshaping the U.S. workforce. The number of immigrant workers in the ...

In this post, I decompose the recent decline in LFPR into changes in the composition of the population and in workers' willingness to supply labor. I find that the reduction in the foreign-born ...