1 in 4 Americans 25-54 Not Working

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7 points·itbeho··6 comments

I don't understand the whole "so discouraged that they left the labor force entirely" bit. If you have that luxury should you even be counted?

Looks like the usual 'Millennial hate' to me.

I'm confused, I've never heard this term before. I was commenting on how adults require income to survive. If you are wealthy enough to support yourself without work I wouldn't call you unemployed. I mean, it's technically true but messes up the data.

> If you are wealthy enough to support yourself without work I wouldn't call you unemployed.

If you're neither working nor contributing to the Social Security system, the SSA regards you as unemployed. If you're neither working nor seeking work, many states regard you as unemployed regardless of your income from other sources.

> I mean, it's technically true but messes up the data.

Not at all. It depends on the uses to which the data are put. If someone wants to know how many people are going to be driving to work, then why someone isn't working is irrelevant.

As far as I am concerned, the data should be as rich as possible without breaking privacy requirements, and the database's users should figure out what the data actually mean.

I stand corrected, for the purposes I was attempting to use the data for (The number of people likely going to bed hungry because they don't have any work) it messes up the data.

Does this count stay at home parents in the 1 in 4 figure?

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