Yes! but according to Gallup they are not considered “unemployed.” How can you not be in the labor force and at the same time not be unemployed; yet, the Department of labor does not consider people who have not found jobs unemployed.
( How can you not be in the labor force and at the same time not be unemployed;)
This is how to make the lie of 5.6 unemployed seem real to the minds of those who see not and who hear not.
The purpose of the unemployment numbers is to figure out how hard or easy it is to find a job.
In order to do this, they take divide the number of people working by the the number of people in the labor force.
It is technically true to say that an 16-year-old boy in high school, or a woman at home taking care of three little kids, is ‘unemployed’ - that’s right, they don’t have any paying work. But it is not reasonable to expect them to seek full-time employment, so they are not counted in the unemployment statistics.