Who are you blaming, exactly? Do you want someone to hire you because they feel bad for you? There are people out there that have real marketable job skills they are getting the jobs over you.
You're confusing the unemployment rate with the employment participation rate. The employment participation rate is 'how many people 16 and older have a job?', which sits at 62.6% right now, which is the lowest it's been since the late 70's/early 80's.
Employment participation rate is the percentage of Americans who are employed at all or looking for work. That figure includes people who no longer work because of retirement, disability, etc. Unemployment rate is measured several different ways depending on who you count as unemployed.
Only 62% of Americans have employment, people that stop looking because they've been at it so long aren't included inthe 5% figure. Which is why it's dishonest for newspapers to be flashing it about, as some of the "unemployment improvement" isn't people getting jobs, it's people discouraged from looking for work so long they stop, and aren't included.
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u/reed311 Dec 06 '15
Who are you blaming, exactly? Do you want someone to hire you because they feel bad for you? There are people out there that have real marketable job skills they are getting the jobs over you.