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To: shades who wrote (52657)	2/4/2006 11:48:37 PM
From: regli	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

"In one of the strongest job reports since the start of the recovery in late 2001, the government reported yesterday that the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent, its lowest level in more than four years." I found the data below quite interesting as well. It display the figures you don't hear about. For easy illustration, I just took the January figures for each year. bls.gov Series Id: LNU05000000 Not Seasonally Adjusted Series title: (Unadj) Not in Labor Force Labor force status: Not in labor force Type of data: Number in thousands Age: 16 years and over 1996 68238 1997 67968 1998 68287 1999 68776 2000 70182 2001 71060 2002 73278 2003 74596 2004 76093 2005 77712 2006 78463