Economics
Missing: About 2 Million Workers From Labor Force, KC Fed Says
- Older workers’ participation is farthest from full recovery
- Participation rate has improved but remains pre-Covid levels
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An estimated 2 million workers are missing from the U.S. labor force, a new Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City report found.
Reasons for the drop include the aging of the population in the past two years and a slowdown in population growth, Didem Tuzemen, a senior economist in the Kansas City Fed’s economic research department, said in the report dated May 6.