Maybe not. I was checking out the graph that was showing the SWELLING RANKS OF WORKFORCE DROPOUTS and decided to plot the same numbers as percentages.
So the swelling ranks are pretty much following a swelling population at 62 to 64 percent-- but what about that one percent that really did dropout? My bet that a much of it is a huge change we've been having in the percentages of stay-at-home-moms, which are "up 13 percent over the last decade, according to the Census Bureau." More like a change for the better than a crisis.