Perhaps lost among last year’s election cycle was the fact that there were some really strange dynamics at work in the U.S. labor market. Even as the population grew older, the participation rate, the measure of all adults who are working or looking for work – stabilized. As reported by Bloomberg, that bucked a long-lived downward trend and surprised many economists in the process. It turns out that the labor force participation rate stabilized in large measure because of people in their 60s.
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