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Thread: Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 95.1 Million: Jump By 446,000 In One Month

  1. #31
    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Quick rough numbers. Labor force participation rate November, 2006: 66.3%. Labor force participation rate November 2016: 62.7%. Net change: 3.6 percentage points.
    That's a pretty huge amount.



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  3. #32
    Quote Originally Posted by Superfluous Man View Post
    That's a pretty huge amount.
    Yes it is and a sign of decline . I consider this decline to be permanent , set in more or less until further decline . Stagnation if you will, until the next large downturn. The govt has finally gone too far , too much meddling for recovery. That health bill pushed it over the top.
    Do something Danke



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  5. #33
    The trend has been going on since the 1990's.

  6. #34
    Other than hustling for non w-2 income, what are these people doing?

  7. #35
    Most of those not in the labor force are retired- about 10,000 a day join their ranks as the Baby Boomers age (3.6 million a year). Others are in school or stay at home parents/ caretakers.

  8. #36
    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    Most of those not in the labor force are retired- about 10,000 a day join their ranks as the Baby Boomers age (3.6 million a year). Others are in school or stay at home parents/ caretakers.
    You can repeat those facts and numbers a thousand times, but I saw a guy somewhere who wasn't working, so there.

  9. #37
    Quote Originally Posted by gaazn View Post
    Other than hustling for non w-2 income, what are these people doing?
    Just hustling a non w 2 income and the rest are slackers eating chips and loafing .
    Do something Danke

  10. #38
    Obama supposedly fixed unemployment. This is the new Dem talking point I hear mentioned on a daily basis every time Trump's Carrier deal is brought up.

  11. #39
    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    The trend has been going on since the 1990's.
    No it hasn't, as you can see in the chart in the OP.

  12. #40
    Quote Originally Posted by Superfluous Man View Post
    No it hasn't, as you can see in the chart in the OP.
    By that chart, it starts about 1998.



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  14. #41
    Quote Originally Posted by Zippyjuan View Post
    By that chart, it starts about 1998.
    You need your vision checked.

    It bounces around between 66 and 67 from the 80's until 2009. It dropped under that and stayed on a downward trend since 2009. Even if you want to go all the way back to when it came off its high, that's still 2000.

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