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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (919195)	2/4/2016 4:59:00 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573708

They were considered part of the work force if they were working, or looking for work. Even when they were not part of the workforce (they didn't care to work, or were discouraged from looking for work), they effect the workforce participation rate, because they are counted in the population that the labor force is divided in to to get the work force participation rate. Workforce is 6 people our of 10. All ten people count in the work force participation rate, that rate is 60%. With the 6 counting as part of the labor force, and the 10 being the number you devided 6 into to get the rate. If they didn't count, then changing the 2nd number wouldn't change the rate, but if the work force was 6 people of out 12, then the participation rate would only be 50% not 60%. since we are now seeing a shrinking number of participants in the workforce, do you think any of that is due to modern women once again staying home as housewives and mothers....? Possibly. I don't have any data on any change in the propensity of women to want to be stay at home moms in recent years. But if so it wouldn't be a big enough effect to cover the change. We haven't had a huge move of women away from the workforce. A better explanation would be the baby boomers retiring. That accounts for a big chunk of the change, but far from all of it. Another part of the change is people being discouraged from looking from work, and relying on government checks such as disability money. washingtonpost.com Number of people receiving Social Security disability payments. ssa.gov