itfitzme
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There are 2 million less jobs in today's work force than there were 3 years ago. America's workforce is 87 million. This is the lowest level since the 1980's and it is still shrinking. The only reason that the unemployment numbers are coming down is because there are less jobs available and people have given up looking for work..
Incorrect.
Employment has, at least, managed to keep up with population growth in the past year.
You are incorrect on nearly all counts.
My guess is that you are using seasonally adjusted numbers which are not actual people but a guess-timate of how may people would be if there were no seasons. You cannot use seasonally adjusted numbers in anything but the most general manner, to give a sense of the long term trend of the ratios.
Seasonally adjusted numbers are not real people so you cannot use them to say that the actual level is higher or lower.
These are the stats
Date...............4/1/2012.....4/1/2009.......Dif
CPOPNSA.........242784.......236832.......5952
CLFNSA............153905.......152957........948
EmpLevelNSA...141995.......136809.......5186
UnempNSA........11910........16147.......-4237
NILFNSA............88879........83876........5003
Given your dates, that is up for the labor force, up for employment level, down for unemployment level.
Never the less, while this demonstrates that you are incorrect, alone it doesn't mean much.
The singularly biggest reason that the labor force has not risen as quickly as we might assume is because newly graduating high school and college seniors are not entering it and there is a net flow from employment to retirement.
And the percentages are
Date.................2009-4 to 2012-4
CPOPNSA.............2.51%
CLFNSA...............0.62%
EmpLevelNSA......3.79%
UnempNSA........-26.24%
NILFNSA..............5.96%
Employment up by a larger percentage then population. Civilian labor force not up as much. Unemployment down by much. And the NILF up more then population is.