Are more Americans working than when Obama took Office? What about the 92 million Not In Labor Force BLS count?

These are related questions whose answer is important to understanding the nation's current economic woes. When substantive, supported answers are posted, some of us have watched the questions pulled from the Y!A board. I'll give everyone a chance to answer the above with a little bit of information for reference purposes. Perhaps a graph will be helpful for some. Sorry, Y!A doesn't allow it to post in more readable form (a range of files and file sizes have been tried, which post clearly elsewhere). Much of the information is still recognizable and possible to follow with regard to the ETA's quarterly employers' payroll counts nationwide.

The Department of Labor offers a number of sources to answer such questions, including the Employment & Training Administration, which is a sister agency to the BLS within the DOL. The ETA is responsible for the nation's only comprehensive counts of the unemployed who've filed new (also called first-time) claims for unemployment after job losses, along with cumulative employers' payroll record counts on a quarterly basis. Their value and accuracy is unmatched by anything coming from the BLS, which estimates figures and rates from surprisingly limited survey responses. That's at the heart of why former BLS Commissioner John Hall panned figures released in the fall of 2012 ahead of the election, calling statistics released by the agency he ran for four years "deeply flawed".

The accompanying graph might help some who like the visual representation it provides. Note that the 133,886,830 workers counted on employer's payroll records in January 2009 lost 8.33 jobs during 2009 and 2010, before a modest turn appeared in the first half of 2011. Obama's current workforce numbers on the ETA's nationwide employers' payroll record counts have come back to 130,938,360, which is still 2,948,470 behind where the workforce was when he took Office. And that roughly 3 million loss coincides with more than 112 million workers who filed distinct new claims for unemployment after job losses during this Administration and somewhere between 36-40 million come-of-age, ready and trained native workers along with record numbers of immigrants and migrants, combined. Those figures come from the Digest of Education Statistics, The Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, and ICE internal documents.

So how does 3 million fewer jobs look against evidence that nearly 40 million newcomers have sought entry and opportunity to become part of the workforce. Just what are Americans supposed to think happened to the 112 million separated from employment under Obama? By-far-and-away, the most significant increase of any employment statistic over the past five years has been the Not In Labor Force count that's vaulted to 91,808,000 on Table A-1 of the BLS' comprehensive monthly Employment Situation Report, while a separate link to the BLS' Table A-16 shows 92,338,000 who've simply been removed from all counts. That along with a 20 million rise in EBT/Food Stamp recipients, along with painful tens of millions of other entitlement program registrants, including a historic rise in disability claimants adds support to what the ETA data shows clearly enough.

This is a shrunken workforce still, millions down entering the President's sixth year in Office. How real recovery is supposed to take place without significant numbers of the 112 million American claimants for unemployment after job losses returning to gainful employment is a mystery apparently only Obama's inner circle is adequately security cleared to know. Yeah, right!!!

With nearly half of college graduates over the past five years unable to secure full time employment in their field, it's fully understandable why millennials are abandoning the rock-star President who remains aloof from the dismal economy he abandoned long ago. Among the truly amazing statistics is that a majority of those polled under the age of 25 would recall the President, if the option was available, according to a recent Harvard Institute of Politics poll.

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