11,472,000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office – IOTW Report

11,472,000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office

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The unemployment rate increased from 6.1 percent in June to 6.2 percent in July.

(CNSNews.com) – 11.4 million Americans age 16 and over have left the workforce since President Obama took office in January 2009, according to data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

In July 2014, there were 92,001,000 Americans, 16 and over, who were classified as “not in the labor force,” meaning they not only did not have a job, but they didn’t actively seek one in the last four weeks.

This number has increased by 11,472,000 since January 2009, when the number of Americans not in the labor force was 80,529,000.

The number of Americans not in the labor force dropped slightly in July, down 119,000 from the 92,120,000 Americans not in the labor force in June.

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8 Comments on 11,472,000 Americans Have Left Workforce Since Obama Took Office

  1. Wish they could count the number of us hanging on by the skin of our fingernails, taking anything we can get in order to stay housed and fed.

    Think this will at least guarantee that we won’t elect another dog-eater for president?

  2. Think this will at least guarantee that we won’t elect another dog-eater for president?
    With half the country on the dole plus 10 million chilishitters added I doubt it.

  3. In the early 90’s I heard Peter Jennings call 30 million NRA members “an insignificant minority”. (Uh, what percentage of America was that?)
    I’d let 11 mil slide and make them acknowledge the real figure of 20% unemployment.

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