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

Well, one of the things wars did, most people not seemed to have noticed, is that it took 12 million men out of the civilian labor force and put them in uniforms.

战争做的事情，大部分人似乎没有意识到，就是战争让1200万人,加入军队,穿上军服。

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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

These are married fathers who stay out of the labor force for at least one year, mainly so they can care for their family while their wives go to work.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

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

Scarpetta says that means countries will need to target their resources more selectively and to ensure that the most vulnerable members of the labor force benefit.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

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

VOA: special.2010.05.06