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The Labor Department, citing budget deficits and claiming poor results, said that it was halting contracts on the 99 private-contractor-operated sites under its purview.

For comparison, the overall labor force participation fell 4.4 percentage points to 62.3% between March 1990 and June 2025, BLS data shows.