{"id":62375,"date":"2017-01-06T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62375"},"modified":"2017-01-06T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:22:18","slug":"in-obamas-final-jobs-report-a-record-95-1-million-people-were-not-in-the-labor-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62375","title":{"rendered":"In Obama&#8217;s Final Jobs report, A Record 95.1 Million People Were Not In The Labor Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>As it began so it will finish.<\/p>\n<p>Putting the exclamation point on a trend that has marked Obama&#8217;s entire presidency, in the final Obama jobs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t01.htm\">report, the BLS announced <\/a>that the total number of people not in the labor force grew once more, rising by 18,000 in December, and a whopping 841,000 in the past three months, to a new all time high of 95.102 million Americans no longer in the workforce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/01\/Not%20in%20Labor%20Force.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/01\/Not%20in%20Labor%20Force_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This meant that the perennial bogeyman of the Trump administration, the collapsing labor force participation rate, remained flat near 35 year lows, risint fractionally from last month to 62.7% as a result of 152.111 million people employed in a civilian non-institutional population of 254.742 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/01\/participation%20rate%20dec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user5\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/01\/participation%20rate%20dec_0.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"node-links\"><\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-06\/obamas-final-jobs-report-record-951-million-people-were-not-labor-force\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-06\/obamas-final-jobs-report-record-951-million-people-were-not-labor-force<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}