Apparently you do not realize that Not in the Labor Force does NOT mean "left the labor force."
When a person leaves the civilian labour force and is not looking for work for more than 30 days, they become part of the marginally attached.
This can either be students, retired, homemarkers, etc.
Not quite.
Marginally Attached is defined as: Did no work during the reference week, wants to work, could have started a job during the reference week, actively looked for work in the previous 12 months but not the 4 weeks ending in the reference week. Someone who was in the Labor Force as employed, is fired/quits/retires/etc and does not look for work will not be classified as marginally attached because they didn't look for work in the previous year.
Not in the Labor Force is far more than Marginally Attached, so I'm not even sure why you brought them up.
When the amount of people leave the labour force, this category increases. The people leaving the labour force can still increase while people are entering, but more often than not, more people have been leaving.
You do realize that the changes are NET changes, right?
If you left the labor force, you must have once been in it. You can be Not in the Labor Force without ever having been in the labor force.
If you look at
Labor force status flows by sex, current month you'll see that in April, 286,000 people entered the population as Not in the Labor Force ("other inflows" seasonally adjusted)
You're reading your own data incorrectly. All you are looking at are the makeups of who consist of the 'Not In labour Force' category.
No, i'm not. The link is for an experimental series of Labor Force FLOWS. It shows the GROSS changes in each category. The vertical axis shows the status in the previous month, and the horizontal shows the status in the current month. So looking at the Seasonally adjusted data, you'll see that there were 143,286,000 people who were employed in March, 137,312,000 still employed in April, 2,008,000 who became Unemployed in April, 3,941,000 who left the labor force and 24,000 who left the population.
Perhaps you should do some research before commenting...here's the page to read:
Research series on labor force status flows from the Current Population Survey
Also you have somehow confused yourself into believing that 'other inflows' are people who are entering this category.
No, that's precisely what it means.
The people in the 'Not In Labour Force' category decreased for the month of April, not increased.
You are correct, you just don't know how to read the chart. Look at Not in the Labor Force on the on the horizontal...you'll see that there were 3,941,000 who were employed in March, Not in the Labor Force in April, there were 2,469,000 who were unemployed in March, Not in the Labor Force in April, 83,240,000 who stayed Not in the Labor Force and 286,000 who entered as Not in the Labor Force. That is 6,696,000 people who entered the Not in the Labor Force Category.
At the same time, looking at Not in the Labor Force on the vertical axis, in March to April, 3,912,000 went from Not in the Labor Force to Employed, 2,625,000 went from Not in the Labor Force to Unemployed, and 191,000 who left the population. So that's 6,728,000 who left the category of Not in the Labor Force. 6,696,000 - 6,728,000 = -32,000 which is the NET change in the Not in the Labor Force Category.
Perhaps looking at BLS statistics is too difficult for you.
Perhaps you should actually learn what you're talking about before coming in condescending to someone who knows this stuff inside and out because he does it for a living.