Among long-tenured workers displaced during 2023–2025, about 58% of those losing jobs because a plant or company closed or moved received written advance notice. The share was about 42% for workers whose position or shift was abolished and
A Mayo Clinic survey of 4,440 employed women ages 45 to 60 found that 13.4% had at least one bad work outcome because of menopause symptoms, and 11% had missed work because of them. The researchers estimated the cost of lost work days at $1
Among private-industry workers in March 2025, 78% of full-time workers had access to defined-contribution retirement plans versus 43% of part-time workers. Healthcare access was 87% for full-time workers and 27% for part-time workers. Paid
Research linking job-ad language with correspondence-study results found that employers using language associated with age stereotypes also showed stronger measured discrimination against older applicants in hiring.
BLS counted 642,000 long-tenured manufacturing workers displaced during 2023–2025, an increase of 215,000 from the prior survey period. Manufacturing accounted for 19% of all long-tenured displacement in the 2023–2025 window.
U.S. manufacturing employment reached an all-time peak of about 19.6 million jobs in June 1979. By June 2019 it stood at about 12.8 million, a decline of roughly 6.7 million jobs, or 35% from the peak.
Longitudinal analysis of the Health and Retirement Study by Urban Institute researchers found that 56% of full-time, full-year workers ages 51–54 experienced an employer-related involuntary job separation after age 50. The analysis followed
Workers who lost long-tenured jobs in retail trade accounted for 10% of all long-tenured displacements during 2023–2025.
In 2024, 74.0% of U.S. mothers with children under age 18 were in the labor force. The rate was 68.3% for mothers whose youngest child was under 6 and 78.0% for mothers whose youngest child was age 6–17.
In June 1979, manufacturing accounted for about 22% of U.S. nonfarm employment. By June 2019, manufacturing accounted for about 9%. Over that period, total nonfarm employment grew from about 90.1 million to 150.8 million while manufacturing
