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Some additional information: From BLS

Work Force in 2000 = 154,746,644

Employed Work Force NOW =151,307,667
Full-Time Employed = 123,396,244

Not Employed/Not in labor force = 93,765.812

Employed 123,396,244
Not working + 93,765.812
Total = 217,162,056

Total unemployed/not working = 43.1%[/QUOT

The difference in the work force from 2000 to 2016 is 3,400,000. What was the amount of not employed/not in the labor force in 2000? You left that out. It was over 40%. The only thing that has change is the person running the country. To try and float out there that the unemployment rate is 43.1% is just plain nonsense.

Presidents in this country can't control what businesses do. The president has little control of getting the US out of a recession especially when the other party is doing everything it can to make sure that he doesn't succeed even at the cost of its citizens. Party first, citizens second. We should all feel so proud, and what we have created.