Well, we all know those unemployment numbers are a farce. The real unemployment rate is closer to 15% with some 94M+ people out of work.
Of course this small uptick is because of new confidence in president elect Trump. It surely isn't from anything boi Barry did.
Really? Really?
Trump's big jobs claim explained in 250 words
Trump says 94 million people aren't working - the truth about that number.
Short answer is, Yes, but it's not nearly as bad as it sounds. To see how it all breaks down, CNNMoney got the numbers for the most recent quarter from the Atlanta Federal Reserve.
All Americans 16 years old and up: 253.9 million
Americans in the labor force with a job: 152.1 million
Americans in the labor force without a job: 8.0 million
That leaves 93.8 million Americans not in the labor force. But a lot of them are not in the labor force for understandable reasons.
44.0 million are retired.
15.3 million are disabled.
13.3 million are taking care of a family member.
13.2 million are in college or job training.
So: of the 93.8 million Americans not working, 85.8 million are retired, disabled, taking care of a loved one, or in school.
That leaves 8 million people - what about them?
5.9 million Americans have looked for a job in the past year OR want a job but have given up searching for over a year.
2.1 million Americans are in the shadows. We don't know why they are not in the work force.