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The US laborforce,
which usually expands by about 1 % per year, has been expanding about twice
as fast due to international migration, welfare recipients moving off the
rolls, more older men working, and an increase in the percentage of
working-age women seeking jobs. In January 1997, a record 67.2 % of the
population 16 and older was in the labor force, employed, or looking for
work, for a total of 136 million persons. |