Because that's what discouraged means. If someone looked for work in the last 4 weeks, he's unemployed, and if someone hasn't looked for work in the last year he's "not in the labor force, wants a job now."But you claim that "MOST" who have dropped out did so out of discouragement, which IS a lie, and you know it.
Discouraged workers have declined from 1,318,000 at the peak of the Great Bush Recession to 502,000 now.
Well, whether it's "most" or not is debatable based on how you're counting them, and I agree I wasn't specific in that. But where do you get that there are 502K discouraged workers? That's hard to swallow
You can go to BLS...
Already did and showed the lie in the statistic. It doesn't count people who gave up and went away, the main group of "discouraged" workers. LOL, you people are priceless.
I said when I was wrong, are you going to do the same?
Seriously....where do they find you people...
BLS provides a glossary, with detailed definitions of all categories......you are struggling to reconcile what you've been told to think with what can be demonstrated.....
You are the one who argued all discouraged workers are counted. They are only counted if they looked more than 4 weeks but less than 52 weeks.