Of 5,070 fatal occupational injuries recorded in the United States in 2024, 4,657 were men and 413 were women. Men therefore accounted for about 92% of all fatal work injuries.
BLS reported that manufacturing and professional and business services together accounted for 35% of long-tenured displaced workers during 2023–2025.
The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 protects people age 40 and older from employment discrimination because of age. The law covers hiring, discharge, compensation, and the terms, conditions, and privileges of employment
In July 2023, 6.9 million workers had a contingent sole or main job, representing 4.3% of total employment. BLS defines contingent jobs as jobs workers do not expect to last or jobs that are temporary, without an implicit or explicit contra
Among men ages 25 to 54, labor-force participation fell from 95.8% in 1970 to 89.1% in 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In BLS data for workers displaced during 2023–2025 from jobs held at least three years, 20.9% of those whose former occupation was management, business, and financial operations were unemployed in January 2026.
From January 2023 through December 2025, 3.3 million U.S. workers were displaced from jobs they had held for at least three years. BLS defines displacement here as losing or leaving a job because the plant or company closed or moved, there
The share of employed workers whose sole or main job was contingent rose from 3.8% in May 2017 to 4.3% in July 2023.
In 1983, the first year for which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has comparable union-membership data, 20.1% of wage and salary workers were union members. In 2025, the union-membership rate was 10.0%. That is a decline of 10.1 percent
BLS reported a 29.6% unemployment rate in January 2026 among long-tenured displaced workers whose former occupation was office and administrative support.
