WTF is wrong with you minor in finance? Holy fok, this is simple math pea brain.
April 2023
Labor Force: 166,678,000
Unemployed: 5,715,000
Unemployment rate: 3.4%
April 2024
Labor Force: 167,982,000
Unemployed: 6,492,000
Unemployment Rate: 3.9%
6,492,000 - 5,715,000 = 777,000
There are three quarters of a million more people in the civilian work force without a job today as compared to one year ago. FACT
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm#cps_empsit_a01.f.1
Those numbers are the civilian population, you know the ones we use to determine the unemployment rate of CIVILIANS.
Now that I've educated you on where the unemployment numbers come from let's look at your claim about 2,802,000 jobs created in the past year. You quoted the Total Nonfarm Payroll. Congratulations, you've just unsuccessfully compared apples to oranges while excluding about 20% of the workforce that makes up the GDP, but who cares, everyone knows you're an idiot so we'll use it anyway.
So then, let's ask ourselves where the delta between your 2,802,000 jobs created and the 1,304,000 million increase in the civilian labor force minus the 777,000 change in unemployment went? That's 2,275,000 jobs unaccounted for. One explanation would be a large group of people leaving the groups you excluded; sole proprietors, self-employed, farm employees and moving into the private sectors. Some of that is likely true.
But then there is this nugget from your link's fact page.
Is the picture starting to become a little bit clearer now?
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@GutterBoy Inept, bad at math and reading.
@Hardcore troubadour street smart, he sees what's happening.