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A discouraged worker is someone who has given up looking for work and has left the labor market. The United States government does not treat discouraged workers as unemployed people because they are not actively looking for work. This creates some counterintuitive results when calculating the unemployment rate.
Recent dips in unemployment largely are due to increasing numbers of people giving up the search for work: so-called discouraged workers. More than once in recent months I have felt like joining their ranks, but not for reasons usually given to account for the growth in worker discouragement. Let me explain.