labor market

noun

: the number of workers who are available to be hired

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The Fed last September did reduce rates by a half of a percentage point, after a faster-than-expected decline in inflation and a marked slowdown in the labor market. Ryan Patrick Jones, USA Today, 7 June 2025 Key Background Friday’s jobs report came two days after a secondary labor market measure, ADP’s private employment update, flashed a worrisome signal, as the payroll processor reported the weakest monthly private sector job growth in more than two years. Derek Saul, Forbes.com, 6 June 2025 The increase in withholding reflects current labor market conditions and some one-time events. State House News Service, Boston Herald, 5 June 2025 Economists have warned that early layoffs like Williams’ could be the first signs of labor market fallout from Trump’s steep (and shifting) tariffs, which have ramped up uncertainty testing the nimbleness of businesses of all sizes. Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for labor market

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“Labor market.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20market. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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