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With a labor market that is rapidly evolving, a cost of living that is constantly increasing, and recent graduates being saddled with student debt across the nation, it’s no stretch to say that the U.S. workforce has reached a critical juncture — and this includes the physical therapy profession. To that end, APTA has taken important steps to better understand what the current state of the physical therapy workforce is and project how it will change in the years to come in order to help the profession prepare for it.

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