Unemployed Dropping Out of Labor Pool
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 1, 2004
Filed at 2:53 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The share of the U.S. population working or actively
seeking a job has fallen to 65.8 percent, the lowest level in 16 years.
Economists say the weak jobs market is causing people to give up their
searches and drop out of the labor pool at an unusual pace -- holding
down the unemployment rate, which was 5.6 percent in February.
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