Jul 16, 2015 ... So although the unemployment rate ticked down to a seven-year low of 5.3  percent in June, that number didn't do justice to the 640,000 individuals who ...  can add tens of thousands of jobs each month, yet the size of the overall labor  market – and the population's overall participation rate – can shrink, ...
Mar 11, 2015 ... Priebus, March 6: We also can't forget that the unemployment rate masks the low  labor force participation rate. Too many Americans have given up and stopped  looking for work altogether. In fact, in the Obama economy the percentage of  Americans in the labor force has shrunk to levels not seen since the ...
Jul 15, 2015 ... The private sector has added 12.8 million private-sector jobs over 64 straight  months of job growth, the longest streak of private-sector job creation on record.  ... Whereas a decreasing unemployment rate is a sign of improvement in the  labor market, an increasing employment ratio can be an even stronger ...
Nov 30, 2017 ... CBO does not try to forecast business-cycle fluctuations, but instead assumes  that real GDP growth will reflect underlying trends in the economy's ... rise in the  unemployment rate and discouragement over the prospects of finding a job  caused a decline in the percentage of the population in the labor force ...
In the above two graphs we showed how the capital market determined the  equilibrium interest rate, r*, and the labor market set the wage rate, w*. We also  include the ... Before giving the details of unemployment we should note that  macroeconomic policies do not desire to provide all individuals with jobs. Some  people ...
Says although the unemployment rate seems to be improving, it does not reflect real job creation -- it’s caused by a "shrinking of the actual labor force."