Reply #26: WRONG!!!! Read your own link before you get snotty about "short visits"

[dmallind]

Your link specifically includes population 16 and older only - the WORKING AGE population. I specifically included kids in my about half number, and I would be flabbergasted to hear they were not included in population numbers. Only if that 32% population growth ignored kids would it be comparable

"Total Employment and the Labor Force (Household Survey Data)

Total employment, at 146.0 million, was about unchanged in October. The
employment-population ratio--62.7 percent--was little changed in October but
was down from its recent peak of 63.4 percent in December. The civilian labor
force, at 153.3 million in October, and the labor force participation rate, at
65.9 percent, were essentially unchanged from September. (See table A-1.)"


http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Total employment at 146Million is 63.4% of the WHOLE population?

I welcome correction - but not antagonistic correction aimed at someone with whom you disagree rather than in an attempt to improve accuracy, and factually incorrect (on your own cut and paste!) at that.