These 9 charts could define the future of America's workforce

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America's labor force in 2060 could be smaller, older and more racially diverse than it is now.

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In September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Mitra Toossi published charts with projections for the workforce over the next three decades.

To compute their forecast, the BLS made projections from 2014 to 2024, and kept the labor force participation rate constant through 2060. Any changes after 2024 in the labor force, then, mainly reflect shifts in the make up of the population.

Here are the charts: