so many stopped looking for work
Back that up with facts and data.
Your bullshit talking points don't work when we're at full employment: 4.6%.
moron....
What 'are so many of them doing?' 95 million not in US labor force
The November jobs report looked pretty good on the surface except for one number that popped off the page: 95 million.
That's the number of Americans now counted as not in the labor force, a historic high that has confounded economists and policymakers. The total — 95.06 million to be more exact — has been rising consistently but surged by a gaudy 446,000 last month.
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For example, the level of those enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — food stamps — has remained elevated even with an economic expansion that is nearly 7 ½ years old.
SNAP recipients totaled 33.5 million in 2009, the year the recession ended. In 2016, the number is at 45.3 million. The government shelled out $74 billion in benefits last year, about double the level of 2008.
the real obama's America....
Taken together, the numbers show that there's more to meets the eye than a headline unemployment rate of 4.6 percent, the lowest since August 2007. Because that number ignores those not in the labor force, as well as workers at part-time jobs for economic reasons, it doesn't tell the whole story. A broader jobless measure is at 9.3 percent.
"I have a problem with people saying we're at full employment," said Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America, a trade credit insurance company. "We have a record 95 million people sitting on the sidelines. To me, that's hardly full employment."
Nowhere does it say why they are not in the jobs market.
Many have retired, been laid off with no skills to get another job, taken time off to care for parents, been sick themselves, or are teenagers or college students going to school full time.
No doubt a lot of them are just lazy Republican White trash, content to collect their gummint checks and eat cheetos in their mobile homes.