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Big Problem: Millions of Americans Have Quit Looking For A Job
In a December interview with Fox News, Donald Trump criticized the relatively low unemployment rate as deceptive, saying, "take a look at the real jobs report, which are the millions of people that gave up looking for work, and they're not considered in that number that's less than 5 percent."
Trump is correct. The unemployment rate does not count people who have not looked for work...
Headlines:
Millions Of Men Have Dropped Out Of The Workforce
People Who Have Stopped Looking For Work Counted
How Many Americans Are Unemployed? It's A Lot More Than 10 Million
Millions Of Americans Have Quit Looking For A Job
Concerns Mount Some Unemployed Have Stopped Looking For Work
Forget Lower Jobs Growth, The Number of People Who've Stopped Looking For Work Is Much More Worrisome
People not looking for work because of COVID-19 - 10/2021
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Millions Of Men Have Dropped Out Of The Workforce, Leaving Companies ...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/men-workforce-work-companies-struggle-fill-jobs- manufacturing/
Jan 26, 2023 - A large number of American men of prime working age - between 25 and 54 years old - are not working or even looking for work, resulting in a major hole in the American economy. In 1953, 98% of...
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Fact Check: Are People Who Have Stopped Looking For Work Counted In The ...
https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Are_people_who_have_stopped_looking_for_work _counted_in_the_unemployment_rate
Yes. The official unemployment rate calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics excludes people who have not actively sought a job in the preceding four weeks, as they are no longer considered part of the civilian labor force. Background Trump's comment to Wallace is not the first time that he has challenged the utility of the unemployment rate.
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How Many Americans Are Unemployed? It's A Lot More Than 10 Million ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/02/19/how-many-americans- unemployed/
Feb 19, 2021 - The United States currently has a lot of people out of work - even more than during the worst point of the Great Recession. But exactly how many people are unemployed right now is a...
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Understanding America's Labor Shortage | U.S. Chamber Of Commerce
https://www.uschamber.com/workforce/understanding-americas-labor-shortage
Nov 20, 2023 - Understanding the Gap. Right now, the labor force participation rate is 62.7%, down from 63.3% in February 2020 and 67.2% in January 2001. There's not just one reason that workers are sitting out, but several factors have come together to cause the ongoing shortage. The factors detailed in the next section have all contributed to a labor shortage.
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Big Problem: Millions Of Americans Have Quit Looking For A Job
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/big-problem-millions-americans-have- quit-looking-job-61722
When people who are unemployed grow too discouraged and stop looking for work, it causes the participation rate to go down. But as a result, the unemployment rate goes down as well because...
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Why America Has 8.4 Million Unemployed When There Are 10 Million Job ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/04/ten-million-job-openings- labor-shortage/
Sep 4, 20219 min correction A previous version of this article and an accompanying chart overstated the number of leisure and hospitality job openings in June. There were 1.7 million, not 3.5 million.
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Concerns Mount Some Unemployed Have Stopped Looking For Work ... - Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/concerns-mount-some-unemployed-have-stopped-looking- work-job-postings-hold-steady-1641263
Oct 21, 2021 at 10:47 AM EDT By Zoe Strozewski Staff Writer Despite soaring numbers of job postings and nationwide pushes to fill positions, concerns are growing that some of the nation's...
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Forget Lower Jobs Growth, The Number Of People Who've Stopped Looking ...
https://theconversation.com/forget-lower-jobs-growth-the-number-of-people- whove-stopped-looking-for-work-is-much-more-worrisome-118445
When people who are unemployed grow too discouraged and stop looking for work, it causes the participation rate to go down. But as a result, the unemployment rate goes down as well because it...
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Who Are America's Missing Workers? - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/12/business/economy/labor-participation- covid.html
Sep 12, 2022 - Sept. 12, 2022. As the United States emerges from the pandemic, employers have been desperate to hire. But while demand for goods and services has rebounded, the supply of labor has fallen short ...
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People Not Looking For Work Because Of COVID-19
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/people-not-looking-for-work-because-of-covid- 19.htm
In October 2021, a smaller percentage of people ages 16 to 24 did not look for work because of the pandemic (4.8 percent), compared with people ages 25 to 54 (9.1 percent) and those age 55 and older (8.6 percent). Women who wanted a job were more likely than men to be prevented from looking for work due to the pandemic in October.
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Joe Biden Is A Racist
"Americans can't distinguish "between a South Korean and someone from
Beijing." - Joe Biden
Yup... they all look alike, Joe.
Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Bragged About His Ability to Work With Racists
Old-Rich-White-Religious Freak, Joe Biden Brags About a Segregationist Democrat Not Calling Him "Boy" Like He Did Others
Used Racist Term "Roaches" to Describe Black Kids Who Felt His Hairy Legs
Praised Democrat Segregationist Sen. John Stennis(D) as "Man of Character"
"Segregation Is Good for Black People" - Joe Biden
"(The) Democrat Party Needs More People Like Racist Democrat Governor George Wallace." - Joe Biden
Gave Speech About What's "Good for the Negro"
"... if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black..." - Joe Biden
"If my opponent wins, they're going to put y'all back in chains." - Joe Biden
Funny, since Democrats have been KEEPING Blacks "in chains" for 60 years, and PUT them there, in the first place. Lincoln and Frederick Douglas and H.R. Revels, Benjamin S. Turner, Josiah T. Walls, Joseph H. Rainey, Robert C. De Large, Jefferson H. Long, R. Brown Elliot were ALL Republicans
http://www.wordfoundations.com/wp- content/uploads/2016/08/First_Colored_Senator_and_Representatives.jpg
"Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle." - Joe Biden
Jungle: Slang term for a city or urban area.
"You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking." - Joe Biden
Only people from India can work at 7-11?
"Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids" - Joe Biden... as opposed to "White Kids"? That would imply all poor kids are Black.
"I do not buy the concept, popular in the '60s, which said, "We have suppressed the black man for 300 years." - Joe Biden
Seems that THAT'S exactly what Democrats have been saying, ever since they found out that they could buy their votes so easily with free shit.
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean." - Joe Biden
What... they're not SUPPOSED to be?
"We (Delawareans) were on the South's side in the Civil War." - Joe Biden
"I mean these Shylocks (Jews) who took advantage of, um, these women and men while overseas." - Joe Biden (Not "racist", per se, but still...)
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