Last week, I made a wonky post to Peach Pundit about the labor force participation rate in the U.S. generally and in Georgia specifically: A closer look at the declining labor force participation rate in Georgia The most recent numbers…
For a much more detailed discussion, go to the following post from Calculated Risk (from which the chart below comes): Understanding the Decline in the Participation Rate. There’s more detailed discussion than I’m offering here, plus a total of five graphs, all of which should be of interest to anyone reading this.
The declining labor force participation rate is largely the result of well-documented long-term demographic trends that we’ve known about for decades.
