[DoodleDawg]

The truth, of course, is that the percentage of the population that is employed has barely budged since the depths of the last recession. According to John Williams, if honest numbers were being used the unemployment rate would actually be 21.5 percent today.

So does that mean I need to flog my 72 year old parents back into the workforce so we can get that rate lowered? My nieces and nephews in college should drop out and get a job?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: So does that mean I need to flog my 72 year old parents back into the workforce so we can get that rate lowered?

I don’t even think he is including retirees when he makes his observation.

This is one sentence to consider from the article:

” there are nearly 102 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now. “