An estimated seventeen percent of the labor force either lacks a job or is not working enough to pay all the bills.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

There was,however, a huge labor force in the South that the army had not called: slaves.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

She says many laws discriminate against women in the areas of property, labor force and marriage.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

And the size of the industrial labor force continued to grow.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

And as Europe's labor force ages and fewer Europeans are born, Lemaitre predicts governments will be pressured into opening their doors to more immigrants.

VOA: standard.2010.01.20

"The reason the unemployment rate rocketed it up, is because the improving employment conditions are drawing more and more job applicants into the labor force,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

It would be some time before labor became a powerful force in national events.

VOA: special.2010.05.06