The sad part is that the BLS labor participation rate includes government jobs as well as private sector jobs.
IF we could plot labor participation rates for PRIVATE SECTOR ONLY, I suspect the charts would look even worse.
But we agree that a weak nation of dependent serfs would please our ‘betters’ far more than a strong nation of free men.
And its not just government jobs.
Obama communist borrowing and printing trillion$ of dollars to give to NOn-profits which produce NOTHING and are about the same as government jobs( are these non-profits including in private sector jobs? at least they are in the Jobs report but they are not really jobs just more socialist bs. then there are private government contractors. All these are included in the “Jobs” numbers . REAL private sector jobs not in universities, not in non-profits , not in government contractors are the worst ever as a % of population. The U.S. is becoming a welfare nation.