In contrast, 40 years from now Europe's economic growth rate is expected to fall 40%, due directly to the shrinking size of both its labor force and its internal market.

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Our fourth objective is to work with the interagency task force to align workforce programs funded by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education with market demands to help the task force identify and develop stackable credentials in high-demand industries, and to increase the use of technology to improve training.

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May traditionally sees a jump in the labor force because of all the new graduates entering the job market, but this was not this case last month as 286, 000 workers left the labor market tally.

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Greece will soon be there, once they have to meet market rates for their debt, or force their labor markets to endure a very serious deflation to make themselves more competitive.

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This new quantitative data about this labor force suggest not only that independent workers are a larger-than-expected market, but also that members are more satisfied with their lifestyle choice and actively seeking to remain independent.

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