Literally half of the drop in the unemployment rate over the last year is due to shrinking the size of the workforce -- in other words unemployed are no longer being counted as they are removed from the workforce.
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Worst. President. Ever. Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. The US unemployment rate dropped to 8.6% after 315,000 Americans gave up looking for work and no longer count as unemployed. USA Today repo... Read Post
At the national level we’re not making a lot of headway on the economy, but the national unemployment rate keeps edging down because the national workforce is shrinking. And it’s shrinking because so many people are leaving it, givi... Read Post
“The more you drill down into the November jobs report, the worse it looks,” writes Jim Pethokoukis. How could it look bad when the unemployment rate is shrinking? Because that rate isn’t shrinking because more Americans are finding... Read Post