September 8th, 2012 at 6:59AM

thinksquad:

Okay, at what point after 42 straight months of unemployment above eight percent should we start “reading into” these reports? Here, let’s try to visualize what’s going on. First, here’s a 14-year trend for the employment-population ratio

“These two charts measure the workforce as a percentage of the population — which accounts for population growth as well as job creation,” Ed Morrissey writes. “Both are not only dropping, the civilian participation rate dropped faster and farther during the recovery than it did during the recession.”

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