(The Center Square) – Pennsylvania is missing young workers and the problem is one that won’t simply go away.
While the commonwealth isn’t the only state struggling with a shrinking youth population, state-to-state comparisons are difficult to make due to data issues. What’s clear is that Pennsylvania has had a significant drop in its labor force participation rate. Rather than a story of older workers retiring, the majority of missing workers are under 45 rather than over.
Compared to the first quarter of 2020, Pennsylvania’s economy was down 151,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2022 and the state population dropped by about 31,000 people. The labor force participation rate, which is the ratio of people working and seeking work out of the working-aged population, has been declining in recent years.
The missing workers issue could be temporary, at least for some younger Pennsylvanians. Young workers may be out of the labor force temporarily, but will return.
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