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Except for the fact that people leaving the workforce is still devastating to the economy regardless. We are literally at all time highs in terms of real unemployment rate. That should scare the shit out of people, not make them feel better about the economy. We are also at all time highs in terms of people on SSI. Which is a huge part of the people who have "dropped out" of the labor force. Again, these people kill the economy because they bring 0 productivity and are an expense all at the same time.Like you said numbers can be used to make any points and people leaving the workforce is being used incorrectly as well.
The jobs market is horrific bad. But our government is absolutely clueless when it comes to actually growing the job market long term. They only consider short term fixes which are what gets us in the tough spot we are in now.
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