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November 2007

Labor force projections to 2016: more workers in their golden years

Mitra Toossi

As the U.S. population ages, the labor force will grow more slowly during the next decade; the older labor force is projected to grow more than 5 times faster than the overall labor force, which will become ever more racially and ethnically diverse.

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