Name:   architect - Subject:   Heading In Right Direction Date:   6/5/2018 10:09:50 PM (updated 6/5/2018 10:15:29 PM)

MM has it ever occured to you that, since the economy has pretty much ''recovered'' from the 2008 collapse, that the reason the participation in the labor market may still be so low is because many (most?) of those ''dropping'' out of the market are doing so not because they cant find work, but because they have no financial need or desire to work?  Just because somebody is in the demographic that typically makes up the ''labor'' market does not mean that all of them need or want to ''labor''!  Don't all you culture war types consider a mom deciding to stay home with the kids a good thing rather than a sign of economic distress?