Peaceful Governance Institute Releases a Report on the Interaction of Capital and Labor Across U.S. Industries

An Evolving Workforce Favors Workers with More Education

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 1, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Peaceful Governance Institute announces the release of its first report on technological change in the United States. The report is available here: https://www.peacegov.org/pub/ai-capital-labor.html. As part of the public charity’s initiative on “Stabilizing the Economy in the Age of AI,” the report establishes a national baseline on changes to capital, labor, and productivity across 18 U.S. industries. Growing and declining occupations are described in the report. To contribute to the debate on whether artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies will take jobs away from people, Peaceful Governance Institute provides a background on how industries from agriculture and construction to manufacturing and retail trade to leisure and hospitality have used productive capital and human labor to produce goods and services. Edward Uechi, executive director of Peaceful Governance Institute, said:

“New policies are needed to help millions of Americans to remain resilient in the 21st century economy. We propose innovative incentives to increase productivity while at the same time controlling for job losses. It’s a win-win solution for both labor and technology.”

Key findings include: average labor share’s contribution to output has gradually declined while average capital share’s output contribution has gradually risen across U.S. industries from 2003 to 2024. Office, sales, and production occupations have declined over the same period, while occupations involving management, business, and financial operations, professional expertise, and interestingly transportation and material moving have been in demand. A more productive period occurred in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Policymakers should begin to worry about the trajectory of wholesale trade, retail trade, and finance and insurance, as those three industries generate high output in the U.S. economy. Current trends suggest that trade and finance warrant monitoring because capital share has been increasing relative to labor share.

Policy recommendations offered for consideration would improve efficiencies in labor-intensive industries, slow or reverse current trends observed in the trade and finance industries, and move low and middle skilled workers into higher paying occupations. To read the recommendations and all other details, follow this link to download the free report: https://www.peacegov.org/pub/ai-capital-labor.html.

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Edward Uechi
Peaceful Governance Institute
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