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Employment and Wages

Policies to create quality jobs, enhance productivity, and foster broad-based economic growth are essential for raising the economic security of U.S. households. 

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Who’s Missing from the Post-Pandemic Labor Force?
An analysis backcasts census population revision in order to create a more informative point of comparison for the current size of the workforce and labor force participation rates. These revisions show that the labor market prior to the 2020 recession was stronger than previously thought.
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The Labor Market Needs to Soften—but Not as Much as Some Think
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A Closer Look at a Hot Labor Market
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Reimagining Industrial Policy for the Service and Tech Sectors

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Who’s Missing from the Post-Pandemic Labor Force?
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The Labor Market Needs to Soften—but Not as Much as Some Think
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A Closer Look at a Hot Labor Market
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An Industrial Policy for Good Jobs

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Covid transformed the U.S. labor market, and it isn’t done yet
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Crosscurrents hide a rapidly cooling labor market
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The Fed could easily drive Black unemployment much higher than the overall jobless rate
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What the monthly jobs report can — and can’t — tell us about the labor market

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THP visualizes economic issues through figures and data interactives.
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Career Earnings by College Major
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Exploring the Geography of Prosperity
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Where Work Pays: Occupations & Earnings across the United States
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Putting Your Major to Work: Career Paths after College

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