The Labor Force Participation Rate is hovering at 62.7%

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1. We were also told in the campaign that there were 94 million "jobless Americans". Now? 95.5 million

Caligula sometimes talked about 94 million jobless Americans during the campaign,

(citing the "Not In Labor Force" number) and said the real unemployment rate is 40% --
Not in Labor Force, Age 16+ https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS15000000

Here is the 12 months of 2017 (in thousands):

2017: 94364 94248 94179 94407 95038 94743 94684 94759 94480 95395 95416 95512

Interestingly, its up by 1,148,000 since the inaugural month of January, so you don't hear very much about it from Trump or his Trumpanzees anymore. (1.148 million more "jobless Americans" to use Trump's campaign rhetoric)

I discuss this some more at
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=466755

Some other stats of interest:

Civilian labor force, 16 and over, thousands, https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11000000

Civilian noninstitutional population, 16 and over, Thousands, https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS10000000

Since January, the Labor Force has grown by only 879,000,
the Not in Labor Force number has grown by 1,148,000
while the civilian non-institutional population (the sum of the above two numbers) has grown by 2,027,000