@McGentrix,
McGentrix wrote:Are you saying that it's a positive that 95 million Americans are out of the labor force?
It could be. After all, you didn't cite the jobless statistic, you cited the "people out of the labor force" statistic. Those aren't the same thing. Or dd you think they were?
McGentrix wrote:but the executive runs the dept of labor and other agencies responsible for such things as people in the labor force.
Do you think that the Labor Department is just a big job placement agency?
McGentrix wrote:Those numbers are a failure to get people working again.
Not necessarily. People "out of the labor force" include retirees and children. I know you may disagree, but I think it's actually a good thing that we don't force children and the elderly to work. And given that we have more retirees then ever (a combination of improved living conditions and the leading edge of the baby boom reaching 65), the increase in the number of people in the "out of the labor force" group may simply be the result of demographics. Do you have any evidence to suggest otherwise?