Activist Post - When a working-age American is not working, the government puts that individual into one of two categories. Right now, there are only 6.5 million U.S. adults who are officially considered to be “unemployed”. But another 99.9 million U.S. adults are considered to be “not in the labor force”. So they don’t count as being “unemployed”. When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 106.4 million U.S. adults that do not have a job right now. At no point during the economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 did that number even reach 90 million.
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Some of the difference is that there are close to 30 million more Americans now than there were 14 years ago. If approximately half the adults are not in the labor force then a growth of 16 million people not in the labor force is pretty much that the same percentage of people are working as were working in 2008 and the same percentage are not in the labor force. The way this was presented makes it seems like the number jumped a lot, when all it die was go up with population growth. Bad journalism
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