Those are not the same thing. The labor force participation rate is the number of employed plus the number of unemployed as a percent of the adult civilian noninstitutional population. Nothing to do with "out of work."
unemployed has nothing to do with out of work?
I didn't say that (though you do realize your 92 million figure excludes the unemployed?). If you take the number of employed PLUS the number of unemployed that is the "Labor Force" Divide the Labor Force by the adult civilian non-institutional population and you get the percent of people in the population who are either working or trying to find a job. How do you think that gives a number of people "out of work?"
And you still haven't stated what you're defining as "out of work" or linked to a source.
the most basic question is whether or not you're calling people who don't want to or are unable to work "out of work?" That would not be normal usage.
92 million out of work, that is not the labor force, that us the amount out of work. I do nit see any numbers that refute that figure.
But the unemployed are in the labor force. "The labor force includes all persons classified as employed or unemployed in accordance with the definitions contained in this glossary."
Glossary
The unemployed are defined as: "Persons aged 16 years and older who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed."
But you don't consider them "out of work." How come? And how many of those Not in the Labor Force want a job, are able to work, and could actually start work if offered? (I'll help: it's 1,844,000
A-38. Persons not in the labor force by desire and availability for work, age, and sex)
So why is it bad that a total of 94,456,000 people not trying to work can't find work? Would you expect them to? Especially since 88,703,000 of them don't want to (or are unable to) work.