“These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months,” the report reads. “They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.”
It continues:
Among the marginally attached, there were 783,000 discouraged workers in April, little changed from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. "
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