American workers

Extracted Attributes

• Lowest Employment Rate

  51.20% (April 2020)

• Highest Employment Rate

  64.70% (April 2000)

• Total Labor Force (2016)

  156,063.8 thousand

• Employment Rate (June 2025)

  59.7%

• Total Labor Force (2026 Forecast)

  167,582.3 thousand

• Average Employment Rate (1948-2025)

  59.26%

• Key Policy Focus (Trump Administration)

  Reducing net immigration, promoting automation, ensuring AI dominance, fostering national champions, onshoring manufacturing

• Workers Covered by US Department of Labor

  Approximately 165 million

• Workplaces Covered by US Department of Labor

  Approximately 11 million

Timeline

• The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was founded with the aim of improving workers' wages, housing, and job security. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1886-XX-XX

• The Sherman Antitrust Act, intended to sanction business cartels, was applied to labor unions. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1890-XX-XX

• The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) began publishing The Militant as a weekly newspaper. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1930s-XX-XX

• Modern US labor law statutes began to be passed, continuing until 1974. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1935-XX-XX

• The average employment rate in the United States from 1948 until 2025 was 59.26%. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1948-XX-XX

• The US employment rate reached an all-time high of 64.70%. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2000-04-XX

• The total non-agriculture wage and salary employment in the US was 144,979.3 thousand. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2016-XX-XX

• The US employment rate reached a record low of 51.20%. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2020-04-XX

• The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) defended Israel's right to exist and defend itself during the Gaza war, a stance that contrasts with other U.S. socialist organizations. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2020s-XX-XX

• The employment-population ratio in the US held steady at 59.7%. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2025-06-XX

• The Trump administration aims to achieve the first net negative immigration for the United States in decades through aggressive deportation efforts by ICE. (Source: Related Documents)

  Future

• The Trump administration plans to cultivate national champions in critical industries through public-private partnerships, including efforts to onshore manufacturing (e.g., rare earths with the DoD). (Source: Related Documents)

  Future

• The Trump administration's AI policy aims to ensure the global dominance of the American technology stack and foster American entrepreneurship. (Source: Related Documents)

  Future

Socialist Workers Party (United States)

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a communist party in the United States. The SWP began as a group which, because it supported Leon Trotsky over Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, was expelled from the Communist Party USA. Since the 1930s, it has published The Militant as a weekly newspaper. It also maintains Pathfinder Press. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, the SWP was the largest Trotskyist organization in the United States. During the 1960s and 1970s, the SWP and its youth wing, the Young Socialist Alliance, were the third-largest socialist organizations, after the Communist Party USA and Students for a Democratic Society. The SWP suffered many splits and its membership declined. The modern SWP is smaller than its progeny, such as the Trotskyist Socialist Alternative and the Marxist-Leninist Party for Socialism and Liberation. The SWP places a priority on "solidarity work" to aid strikes and is strongly supportive of Cuba. During the 2020s, the SWP has defended "Israel's right to exist" and "right to defend itself", especially during the Gaza war. This contrasts with other U.S. socialist organizations, which take an anti-Zionist position and defend Palestinian nationalism.

Web Search Results

• Labor force in the United States - Wikipedia

  | Nonagriculture wage and salary(2) | 137,190.9 | 144,979.3 | 155,724.8 | 7,788.4 | 10,745.5 | 92.1 | 92.9 | 92.9 | 0.6 | 0.7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Goods-producing, excluding agriculture | 22,466.7 | 19,685.2 | 19,904.2 | -2,781.5 | 219.0 | 15.1 | 12.6 | 11.9 | -1.3 | 0.1 | | Mining | 619.7 | 626.1 | 716.9 | 6.4 | 90.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.4 | | Construction | 7,691.2 | 6,711.0 | 7,575.7 | -980.2 | 864.7 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 4.5 | -1.4 | 1.2 | [...] | Industry Sector | Thousands of Jobs | | | Change | | Percent Distribution | | | Compound Annual Rate of Change | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2006 | 2016 | 2026 | 2006–16 | 2016–26 | 2006 | 2016 | 2026 | 2006–16 | 2016–26 | | Total(1) | 148,988.2 | 156,063.8 | 167,582.3 | 7,075.7 | 11,518.5 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 0.5 | 0.7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | [...] Statistics from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics 2019 Annual Survey | Race | Production, transportation, and material moving | Natural resources, construction, and maintenance | Sales and office | Service | Management, professional, and related | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | White | 11.3 | 10.1 | 21.3 | 15.9 | 41.4 | | Black or African American | 16.2 | 5.7 | 22.3 | 23.8 | 31.9 | | Asian | 9.1 | 3.1 | 17 | 15.8 | 55 | | Hispanic or Latino | 15.4 | 16.4 | 20.6 | 24.2 | 23.3 |

• Employment in the U.S. - statistics & facts | Statista

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• United States Employment Rate - Trading Economics

  The employment-population ratio in the US held steady at 59.7% in June 2025, remaining at its lowest level since January 2022. Employment Rate in the United States averaged 59.26 percent from 1948 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 64.70 percent in April of 2000 and a record low of 51.20 percent in April of 2020. source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics [...] []( United States Employment Rate In United States, the employment rate measures the number of people who have a job as a percentage of the working age population. | | Actual | Previous | Highest | Lowest | Dates | Unit | Frequency | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | 59.70 | 59.70 | 64.70 | 51.20 | 1948 - 2025 | percent | Monthly | SA | Compare Employment Rate by Country Related U.S. Stresses Deal Quality Over Speed in Japan Tariff Talks [...] | Nonfarm Productivity | -1.50 | 1.70 | percent | Mar 2025 | | Part Time Employment | 28190.00 | 28557.00 | Thousand | Jun 2025 | | Productivity | 115.49 | 115.73 | points | Mar 2025 | | U-6 Unemployment Rate | 7.70 | 7.80 | percent | Jun 2025 | | Unemployed Persons | 7015.00 | 7237.00 | Thousand | Jun 2025 | | Unemployment Rate | 4.10 | 4.20 | percent | Jun 2025 | | Unit Labour Costs | 6.60 | 2.00 | percent | Mar 2025 | | Wages | 31.24 | 31.15 | USD/Hour | Jun 2025 |

• United States labor law - Wikipedia

  Industrial conflicts on railroads and telegraphs from 1883 led to the foundation of the American Federation of Labor in 1886, with the simple aim of improving workers wages, housing and job security "here and now". It also aimed to be the sole federation, to create a strong, unified labor movement. Business reacted with litigation. The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was intended to sanction business cartels acting in restraint of trade, was applied to labor unions. In 1895, the US Supreme [...] Modern US labor law mostly comes from statutes passed between 1935 and 1974, and changing interpretations of the US Supreme Court. However, laws regulated the rights of people at work and employers from colonial times on. Before the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the common law was either uncertain or hostile to labor rights. Unions were classed as conspiracies, and potentially criminal. It tolerated slavery and indentured servitude. From the Pequot War in Connecticut from 1636 onwards, [...] Common law, state and federal statutes usually confer labor rights on "employees", but not people who are autonomous and have sufficient bargaining power to be "independent contractors". In 1994, the Dunlop Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations: Final Report recommended a unified definition of an employee under all federal labor laws, to reduce litigation, but this was not implemented. As it stands, Supreme Court cases have stated various general principles, which will apply

• Summary of the Major Laws of the Department of Labor

  The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) administers and enforces more than 180 federal laws. These mandates and the regulations that implement them cover many workplace activities for about 165 million workers and 11 million workplaces. [...] The Immigration and Nationality Act requires employers who want to use foreign temporary workers on H-2A visas to get a labor certificate from the Employment and Training Administration certifying that there are not sufficient, able, willing and qualified U.S. workers available to do the work. The labor standards protections of the H-2A program are enforced by The Wage and Hour Division. ### Mine Safety and Health