Labor participation

About 3.5 million more people were working or looking for work in May than a year earlier. Economists hope the number keeps rising.

The pandemic forced some Americans out of the workforce to care for family. Risk posed by the delta variant may keep them from returning.

The implications of a shrinking population on our economic growth are potentially big, but Marketplace senior economic contributor Chris Farrell thinks there's some solutions to tap.

Labor force participation in the U.S. is said to be lower than that of comparable economies. There are a couple of factors at play.