[Dilbert San Diego]

That occurred to me too, that the 111 million includes retired people. It’s a big distortion of statistics to talk about retired people in the same category as actual unemployed people or people who are on public assistance and don’t work.

[ripnbang]

You see where this is going, right?

[MinorityRepublican]

It’s a big distortion of statistics to talk about retired people in the same category as actual unemployed people or people who are on public assistance and don’t work.

Not really. No. They collect Social Security and we are paying for it through taxes.

[PGR88]

The article does a poor job of explaining that this “111 million US adults do not have a job” includes everyone over the age of 16, and may include mothers at home, retirees, people in prison, in hospital etc...

Yes, it also does include a lot of people on welfare who simply sit at home - a figure, along with disability, has been rising steadily over the last decades.