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To: jlallen who wrote (857015)	5/15/2015 3:46:44 PM
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Record low labor force participation rate.... REALLY???? DECLINED STARTED IN 2000 (WHEN W CAME IN OFFICE).. Declining Labor Participation Rates Posted on March 11, 2015 factcheck.org Republicans have tried to temper the latest jobs report — which showed a gain of nearly 300,000 jobs and the unemployment rate dipping to 5.5 percent — by noting that the labor force participation rate has continued to decline. But in at least two instances, the claims have gone too far. Sen. Lindsey Graham said the labor participation rate “is at an all-time low.” That’s not accurate. It was lower between 1948 and 1978. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus blamed the shrinking participation rate on “the Obama economy,” but economists say most of the decline, which has been happening for more than a decade, is due to demographics, including the trend of baby boomers reaching retirement age and deciding to no longer work.