The Brookings Institution

A new Brookings report forecasts automation’s sizable impacts on the American workforce through 2030, the authors find demographic and geographic variation in susceptibility throughout the United States based on analysis of over 300 occupations.

This report details how automation and AI will likely have many positive impacts on the U.S. economy, despite the uncertainty and disquiet they are currently engendering, the trick is going to be to recall as a nation that technological change doesn’t “just happen” but that it can be shaped.

The labor force participation rate in the United States peaked at 67.3 percent in early 2000 and has declined at a more or less continuous pace since then, reaching a near 40-year low of 62.4 percent in September 2015.

This paper is "An Inquiry into the Decline of the U.S. Labor Force Participation Rate" from the BPEA Conference Drafts, September 7-8, 2017.

Ten years from now, the jobs report may look very different, CNBC's Deirdre Bosa explores how automation and robotics will change the future of the U.S. workforce.

This report identifies a distinct yet overlooked part of the economy, the advanced industries sector, that is at once critical to national wellbeing and under pressure from eroding competitiveness and national economic drift.

This report sheds new light on the widespread contributions that infrastructure jobs make to the nation’s economy, including their importance at the metropolitan level.

This report explores the major trade corridors connecting different regions of the country, revealing the importance of particular places in the nation’s freight network.

Analysts expect automated trucks to proliferate in the next five to ten years, leading to significant job losses in the process, but the problem is the numbers do not clearly back up the predictions.

Manufacturing is no longer just about the production line, manufacturing, and jobs in manufacturing, have changed in ways that mean that the old jobs will never return to the rich world, and because of these changes, working out how many people are employed in manufacturing is difficult.