Faun
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Don't argue it... prove it. Prove a high number can't find work and gave up looking...Great, you follow up your last deranged post with another.You're fucking deranged. There's only 7.4 million people out of work now who are looking for a job. WTF do you get "tens of millions from?"Why? It's a meaningless figure in terms of the health of the job market as it reflects demographics.
It was lower than it is now in the early 60's. It went up then because the baby boomer generation began turning 18 and entering the labor force. Now they're turning 62 and leaving the labor force.
Tell that to the tens of millions unable to find steady work who now live on the dole.
No, you're confused. The labor participation rate includes those that have given up looking or taken part time jobs that don't count as full employment.
33% of Americans out of workforce, highest rate since 1978. The number of Americans aged 16 and older not participating in the labor force hit 92,898,000 in February, tying December's record, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).Mar 7, 2015
33% of Americans out of workforce, highest rate since 1978 - RT.com
33% of Americans out of workforce, highest rate since 1978
I didn't deny there are any folks who gave up looking within the group of those not in the labor force... I am pointing out the vast majority of those not in the labor force choose to not work. For a wide variety of reasons, some 95% of those not in the labor force neither look for work nor want to work. Citing 95 million not working, when nearly all of them don't want to work, as though it somehow indicates either a bad economy or an unhealthy job market, is just the sort of idiocy rightwingnuts spout.
Want proof of that...? Watch how the right does a 180 on their complaints about the labor force participation rate when Trump assumes office and the not in labor force continues to grow as it has for decades now and as the labor force participation rate continues to drop as it has done for about 16 years now.
To your second paragraph first, I did not vote Trump and I sure as hell will not reverse my thoughts on the issue because of him.
I acknowledge your point that demographic shifts drive the participation rate, but I also see it as a measure of two things, both very important to me. I argue the high number is also an indication of:
It is for these reasons I find the number concerning.
- An overall crappy economy where people look so long for a job, they give up, thereby relying on;
- The dole or similar government handouts, which is also increasing.
Clearly, not a deranged thought, so let's both stop with the name calling please.