For all the positivity about the April jobs reportâ??lowest unemployment rate in four years!â??the U.S. job market remains dismal. One statistic makes the point: Just 58.6 percent of American civilians aged 16 and up had jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Thatâ??s a lower employment-to-population ratio than during the worst of the 2007-09 recession. Even though the jobless rate has fallen, millions of people arenâ??t counted as unemployed because theyâ??ve stopped looking for work, or never started.
Itâ??s time to stop and figure out whatâ??s wrong.
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