Is everyone missing the point here??
USA unemployment rate is at a 50 year low. Almost everybody IS working.
Unemployment is based on the percent of people who are looking for work and/or all ready have jobs. The math does not count those who are out of the workforce, such as the retired, handicapped, injured, etc. It will also not count anyone, who is able bodied, but not looking for work. If we have 1 million people not looking to work, they are not counted as unemployed, but rather they are treated as another static called, out of the work force, like someone old and retired. It is a game.
If you look at available jobs, based on employers trying to hire, there are too many surplus jobs, for a genuine unemployment rate to be so low too many able bodies. An available jobs approach to employment, would be based on all able bodies, which shows much more unemployment.
Part of the problem was the pandemic. The Democrats party shut down half the economy and paid people not to work for several years. They paid many people better than working their jobs. This became an incentive not to work with extensions. This created bad habits and poor work ethics for many. Many continued to stay out of the workforce. Everyone saw the problem, but fake news ignored the story, as directed.
Democrats know how to cheat the numbers to make themselves look better than their skills. They also did this with their high big city crime numbers. They lowered them, not by reducing crime, but by not prosecuting criminals. If you do not prosecute, then no crime record means no crime, and better crime numbers. If we look crime from the POV of victims, similar to the surplus jobs, the crime is up in Democrat cities. We need honesty in Government
Inflation was another numbers scam. If we based it on the way it used to be calculated, which use to include food and energy costs, inflation would be much higher. But if you leave off the big expenses of small people; lower and middle class, inflation will appear to be 5-8% lower than it really is. All is now rosy under these smoke and mirrors, but with the man in the street, still not seeing rose in their real lives.