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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1192010" data-attributes="member: 1246">Hence the reason the official unemployment rate is artificially low.Via <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/08/labor-force-participation-hits-34-year-low.php" target="_blank">Powerline</a>:A comprehensive disaster like the Obama administration can’t be summed up in one statistic, but the one that comes closest is labor force participation. 

The combined effect of many misguided policies–Obamacare, ballooning spending, massive debt, tax increases, subsidizing of inefficient energy, anti-growth regulation, encouragement of food stamp fraud, and many more–has been to drive many millions of Americans out of the labor force. Express Employment Professionals has produced a <a href="http://www.expresspros.com/subsites/americaemployed/documents/The-Great-Shift.pdf" target="_blank">white paper</a> that illuminates this human tragedy:The labor force participation rate is currently at a level not seen since the 1970s – 63.4 percent.

While the unemployment rate has steadily decreased from its high of 10.0 percent in October of 2009 to 7.4 percent in July of 2013, the percentage of Americans in the labor force has not risen. It has fallen about 2.7 percentage points since the onset of the latest recession.


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[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1192010, member: 1246"] Hence the reason the official unemployment rate is artificially low. Via [URL="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/08/labor-force-participation-hits-34-year-low.php"]Powerline[/URL]: [INDENT]A comprehensive disaster like the Obama administration can’t be summed up in one statistic, but the one that comes closest is labor force participation. The combined effect of many misguided policies–Obamacare, ballooning spending, massive debt, tax increases, subsidizing of inefficient energy, anti-growth regulation, encouragement of food stamp fraud, and many more–has been to drive many millions of Americans out of the labor force. Express Employment Professionals has produced a [URL="http://www.expresspros.com/subsites/americaemployed/documents/The-Great-Shift.pdf"]white paper[/URL] that illuminates this human tragedy: [INDENT]The labor force participation rate is currently at a level not seen since the 1970s – 63.4 percent. While the unemployment rate has steadily decreased from its high of 10.0 percent in October of 2009 to 7.4 percent in July of 2013, the percentage of Americans in the labor force has not risen. It has fallen about 2.7 percentage points since the onset of the latest recession. [/INDENT][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

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