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As our population grows, it's perfectly natural that fewer people are in the workforce.
Let's say that this year one family exists, and there are two parents who both work and a 17 year old high school student who doesn't work and 83 year old granny. Thats a total of 2 people not in the labor force.
Next year two families exists, and there are now four parents who work, two teenagers who don't, and two elderly people - so that's now 4 people not in the workforce.
Any surprises?
There is one surprise...And that is why not audit the BLS and its parent the Dept. of Labor and structure this wacky system to come up with more precise numbers on this crap...Hey, I got an idea, remove the BLS from the Dept of Labor...