Even a drop in the unemployment rate, from 9.7 percent in May to 9.5 percent in June, represents a pullback, not an improvement. The rate fell because 652,000 people left the work force last month. Since they were neither working nor looking for work, they were not counted as unemployed. If they had been counted, the jobless rate in June would have been 9.9 percent.
Editorial - Help Needed for the Economy - NYTimes.com
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