{"id":30411,"date":"2017-03-12T21:04:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30411"},"modified":"2017-03-12T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T01:04:01","slug":"the-number-of-americans-in-the-workforce-has-dramatically-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=30411","title":{"rendered":"The Number of Americans In The Workforce Has Dramatically Increased"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday The Washington Free Beacon <\/a>posted an article about the latest workforce participation rate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The number of Americans<\/a> either working or looking for work in the past month hit a record high of 160,056,000, the first time this number surpassed the 160,000,000 mark, according to numbers<\/a> released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. Last month, there were 159,716,000 Americans in the labor force.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were 340,000 more Americans who joined the labor force in February, while 176,000 left. The number of Americans not participating in the labor force declined from 94,366,000 in January to 94,190,000 in February. The bureau counts those not in the labor force as people who do not have a job and did not actively seek one in the past four weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The labor force participation rate<\/a>, which is the percentage<\/a> of the population that has a job or actively looked for one in the past month, increased from 62.9 percent in January to 63.0 percent in February.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because the number of unemployed also went down, the unemployment number also went down from 4.8 percent in January to 4.7 percent.<\/p>\n

The article also reported:<\/p>\n

The “real” unemployment rate, otherwise known as the U-6 measure, was 9.2 percent<\/a> in February, which declined from 9.4 percent in the previous month.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is what the U-6 number has been from January 2005 through January 2016:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is the true unemployment number, and it needs to continue to decrease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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