US employment participation rates

U.S. Jobless Rate Drops for the Worst of All Reasons

Cryptogon,

10 September, 2012

The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.3 percent, but that was only because 368,000 people left the labor force. The share of working-age people who are either working or looking for work—known as the labor-force participation rate—fell to its lowest level since September 1981