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To: JakeStraw who wrote (385822)	4/4/2003 2:59:42 PM
From: chomolungma	Respond to of 769667

They have dropped out of the labor market which lowers the unemployment rate. Jake, don't be fooled. The number of discouraged workers is not large enough to make a significant change in the unemployment rate. From this morning's release" There were 474,000 discouraged workers in March, up from 330,000 a year ago. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, were not currently looking for work specifically because they believed no jobs were available for them. (See table A-13.)