Prime-Aged Americans Are Working Less—But That’s Actually Good News for the Economy

Prime-Aged Americans Are Working Less—But That’s Actually Good News for the Economy

Many jobs for prime-aged workers have been replaced by machines and computers in the past two decades. LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images

Many jobs for prime-aged workers have been replaced by machines and computers in the past two decades. LOIC VENANCE/AFP/Getty Images

Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 are working fewer hours, and the overall workforce participation of this prime-aged group lags behind that in other developed countries, recent studies by the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco found.Only 81 percent of prime-aged Americans were employed as of 2015, while the prime-age labor participation rates in […]

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