Actually, more people gave up looking for jobs in Jan. So much for Tramp giving workers new hope in finding a job!!!He said it's BS because it's undercounting, he didn't say it's fabricating numbers. He said the interpretation of them is BS. It is. Imagine a bunch of people find jobs and the unemployment rate supposedly goes up. It's stupid.
That number even went up because more people started looking for jobs so he wasn't even basing his argument on that number.
Discouraged workers:
Dec 426,000
Jan 532,000
Non-sequitur, you can't conclude that from that stat.
I see where you get the half million number now. That stat refers to the BLS defined statistics, you need to learn what the term means in terms of how you are using it, it doesn't mean what you think it means. It's one group, it's not an encompassing term