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What’s Driving Labor Force Participation Among Women?
A substantial and unexpected rise in women’s labor force participation rates over the past few years has been a key factor spurring rapid labor force growth. In particular, Hispanic women have made a disproportionately large contribution to post-pandemic growth in prime-age women’s participation rates. Analysis shows that this group’s increase was driven by both a rise in labor market participation over the life cycle within generational cohorts and notably higher participation rates among younger generations than older generations’ participation when they were the same age.
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The Changing Disparity in Prices Across States
Differences in prices for consumer goods and services across states have been increasing since the early 2010s. Those differences accelerated during the pandemic and the subsequent inflation surge. Higher-price states saw faster inflation from 2019 to 2022 compared with lower-price states, leading price levels to diverge further across regions. Data show that state-level inflation was driven by both goods and services, which tended to move together rather than independently in most regions.