I'm well aware of the ability to twist statistics, but the unemployment rate is a decent yard stick for measuring changes in the labor force. And barring some underlying change in methodology for finding the statistic, it shows a trend over time in a positive direction: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000

Wage growth is also ticking up: https://www.frbatlanta.org/chcs/wage-growth-tracker.aspx?pan...

Which aligns well with the low unemployment rate.