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The BLS counts a person as participating in the labor force if they are 16 years or older and either have a job or have actively sought a job in the last four weeks. A person is not participating in the labor force if they are 16 or older and have not sought a job in the last four weeks. In from July to August, according to BLS, Americans not participating in the labor force climbed from 89,957,000 to 90,473,000, pushing past 90,000,000 for the first time, with a one month increase of 516,000. In September, it climbed again to 90,609,000, an increase of 136,000 during the month.
In January 2009, when President Barack Obama took office, there were 80,507,000 Americans not in the labor force. Thus, the number of Americans not in the labor force has increased by 10,102,000 during Obama's presidency. The labor force participation rate, which is the percentage of the non-institutionalized population 16 years or older who either have a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks, was 63.2 percent in September. That was unchanged from August. When President Obama took office in January 2009, the labor force participation rate was 65.7 percent.
The percentage of the civilian non-institutionalized population over 16 that was employed also remained constant from August to September at 58.6 percent. When President Obama took office in January 2009, the employment-population ratio was 60.6 percent. The overall national unemployment rate--which is the percentage of people participating in the labor force who actively sought a job and did not find one in September--was 7.2 percent. That was a slight drop from the 7.3 percent unemployment rate in August. When President Obama took office in 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent.
The number of people actually employed increased by 133,000 last month, climbing from 144,170,000 in August to 144,303,000 in September. When Obama took office in January 2009, there were 142,153,000 Americans employed--meaning the number has increased by 2,150,000 over the past 57 months. One reason for the increasing number of people not in the labor force is the aging of the Baby Boom generation, whose members have begun retiring--and are not being replaced by an equal number of young people entering the labor force.
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At the same time, the number of women actually holding jobs declined by 154,000 from August to September. Because the number of women participating in the labor force declined in September, the drop in the number of women who were actually employed did not cause an increase in the unemployment rate for women. In fact, even though 154,000 fewer women worked in August than September, the unemployment rate for women dropped from 6.8 percent to 6.7 percent.
As calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a person participates in the labor force if they are 16 or older, not institutionalized, and either have a job or have actively sought a job in the last four weeks. The labor force participation rate is the percentage of people over 16 in the non-institutionalized population who either have a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks. In September, according to BLS, the labor force participation rate for women was 57.1 percent, down from 57.3 percent in August and 57.4 percent in July. The female labor force participation rate had also dropped to 57.1 percent this March.
Prior to this March and September, however, the last time the female labor force participation rate dropped as low as 57.1 percent was in February 198924 years ago. The BLS has been tracking the participation of women in the U.S. labor force since 1948. In January 1948, 32.0 percent of the non-institutionalized female U.S. population over the age of 16 participated in the labor force. That percentage generally climbed over five decades, peaking at 60.3 percent in April 2000. Since then, the labor force participation rate among women has been generally declining.
In August, according to BLS, the female civilian labor force was 72,973,000. In September it dropped to 72,705,000a decline of 268,000. Similarly, the number of women working in America dropped from 68,005,000 in August to 67,851,000 in Septembera decline of 154,000. However, because the decline in the number females in the civilian labor force was greater than the decline the number of females actually holding jobs, the unemployment rate for women actually dropped from 6.8 percent in August to 6.7 percent in September.
154,000 Fewer Women Held Jobs in September; Female Participation in Labor Force Matches 24-Year Low | CNS News
Head for those underground bunkers everyone; they're coming to get us. I'm so afraid......
Head for those underground bunkers everyone; they're coming to get us. I'm so afraid......
Head for those underground bunkers everyone; they're coming to get us. I'm so afraid......
And they all have that warm tingle running up their leg - they are just SO HAPPY things are going to get worse for their fellow Americans.
Sadistic bastards.
Head for those underground bunkers everyone; they're coming to get us. I'm so afraid......
And they all have that warm tingle running up their leg - they are just SO HAPPY things are going to get worse for their fellow Americans.
Sadistic bastards.
I'm ready- Time to weed out the communist
-Geaux
And they all have that warm tingle running up their leg - they are just SO HAPPY things are going to get worse for their fellow Americans.
Sadistic bastards.
I'm ready- Time to weed out the communist
-Geaux
You bet, bring on the collapse of this progressive hell we are living in. It's going to happen soon anyway so let me deal with it rather than my unborn grand-kids.
Tolstoy would like to have a word with you ass clowns.
Head for those underground bunkers everyone; they're coming to get us. I'm so afraid......
And they all have that warm tingle running up their leg - they are just SO HAPPY things are going to get worse for their fellow Americans.
Sadistic bastards.
Tolstoy would like to have a word with you ass clowns.
Conservatives are sadistic bastards who want to see this country fail. You are a treasonous lot of disgusting vipers, and I hope you never have a moment's peace or happiness in your life.
Conservatives are sadistic bastards who want to see this country fail. You are a treasonous lot of disgusting vipers, and I hope you never have a moment's peace or happiness in your life.
And they all have that warm tingle running up their leg - they are just SO HAPPY things are going to get worse for their fellow Americans.
Sadistic bastards.
I'm ready- Time to weed out the communist
-Geaux
You bet, bring on the collapse of this progressive hell we are living in. It's going to happen soon anyway so let me deal with it rather than my unborn grand-kids.
I'm ready- Time to weed out the communist
-Geaux
You bet, bring on the collapse of this progressive hell we are living in. It's going to happen soon anyway so let me deal with it rather than my unborn grand-kids.
My recommendation, and that's all it is; be prepared. Own at least one gun, or multiple guns in the same caliber if you want to protect what you have from those who will come for it. And I can't blame those folks. If I had a baby, and was not prepared in a SHTF scenario, and my neighbor was, I would be paying you a visit. We need to expect this. Living in California I need to have long term supplies in case of Earthquake so my hand has already been forced. But for others, the SHTF scenario requires preparation whether it happens or not.
Only difference today is, these same people are taking from us 'legally' through legislation. Once the final collapse of our intended Republic, which has been reduced to a Democracy happens, you will need supplies and a gun
IMO
-Geaux
