Record low unemployment rate for manufacturing workers. First time under 3%

Twitter via Scoopnest ^ | 2:39 PM - Dec 8, 2017 | Conor Sen

[GonzoII]

Record low unemployment rate for manufacturing workers. First time under 3% (2.6%):

[khelus]

Marginally attached workers (Current Population Survey)
Persons not in the labor force who want and are available for work, and who have looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the past 12 months), but were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Discouraged workers are a subset of the marginally attached. (See Discouraged workers.)
https://www.bls.gov/bls/glossary.htm#M

Discouraged workers (Current Population Survey)
Persons not in the labor force who want and are available for a job and who have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the past 12 months), but who are not currently looking because they believe there are no jobs available or there are none for which they would qualify.
https://www.bls.gov/bls/glossary.htm#discouraged_workers

[khelus]

“Where can I go to get MY career back?”

depending upon your field, likely China or India

[I want the USA back]

That is what Trump set out to accomplish!

[theoilpainter]

What is happening with the tax bill House/Senate reconciliation?

[Paul R.]

There are an awful lot of potential workers out there content with their with disability payments, even though there certainly are areas they could work in. There are also plenty with both disability who do work on the side.

One guy I know of had I believe full disability (for a “bad back”), and, get this, ran and worked regularly in his own tree service. He also had a small shop in his barn and did tire work for a lot of the farmers local to him - yes, we are talking big tires. He would take a check for the tire work, but never provided any kind of receipt. For the tree work I don’t know - I never had him do any tree work for me. I’d guess it was all “off the record” for him.)

How are these people figured in?

[sparklite2]

People have misconception of how the unemployment rate is determined. It is, in fact, the result of a survey, nothing more.

“There are about 60,000 eligible households in the sample for this survey. This translates into approximately 110,000 individuals each month, a large sample compared to public opinion surveys, which usually cover fewer than 2,000 people. The CPS sample is selected so as to be representative of the entire population of the United States”