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Featured Article
Featured article image September 2024

Why did labor force nonparticipation increase from 1999 to 2022?

Steven F. Hipple

This article examines data on people who were not in the labor force—those who neither worked nor looked for work—and the reasons they gave for not working.

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Book Reviews
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Global middle class, happy middle class—from an idea to an ideal

Eric H. Landuyt

In this book, Homi Kharas traces how economic theory influenced by the ancient Greek idea of the good life has informed policies that have brought billions of people into the global middle class.

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Beyond BLS

The decline of the teaching profession

Lisa N. Huynh

Although teachers are among one of the most prominent and essential occupations in the United States, there has been a rapid decline in interest and prestige for them throughout the past 50 years.

One eye on U.S. coffers, one eye on their own: foreign policy rates and U.S. debt

Harry Nitzberg

The fiscal decisions of the United States can affect central banks internationally.

Is there a transgender earnings gap?

Nicholas A. Schaffer

Researchers use administrative data to evaluate the labor market outcomes of transgender Americans.

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Flashback
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December 1983

In a 1983 article, BLS looks at the long-term effects of the labor force from the 1940s to 80s on earnings and employment of family members.

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