The labor market may be even stronger than people realize https://finance.yahoo.com/news/labor-market-may-even-stronger-people-realize-122755081.html the Brookings study emphasizes that labor force participation rose among workers aged 25-54 last month to near its levels prior to the financial crisis. The rebound comes after a decades-long swoon in male prime-age participation and a 15-year slide in female prime-age participation. “The increasing prime age participation rate is a strong sign for the labor market recovery, and it does give us some information about the state of that recovery,” Ryan Nunn, policy director at the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project Good news.....