Can we please stop accepting the inside-the-beltway premise that unemployed people are not unemployed.
After all, no one reports to some agency and says "I am no longer looking for work." I will concede that some people are unwilling to work, but they are still unemployed, and if someone is willing to work, they will take a job that comes up, even if they were so discouraged that they stopped trying.
People that have quit looking were removed from the statistics in 1994 - during The Stain's® watch.