Here's the U.S. labor participation rate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from January, 2000 thru to the present:
G.W. Bush took office in January of 2000 while Barrack Obama took office in January of 2009 which means that it's been falling like a rock under the complete duration of both of their presidencies.
Obama's fanatical obsession with displacing and corrupting authentic Christianity from America to implement the homosexual agenda aside for a minute: Obama's economic, trade, and banking policies are almost identical to what Bushs were from a macro POV.
The Heritage Foundation states the situation as follows in their September 4, 2014 report:
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The post-recession economy has undergone the slowest recovery in 70 years. In addition to more than 6 percent unemployment five years after the recession officially ended, labor force participation has fallen sharply since the recession began in December 2007. Today, 6.9 million fewer Americans are working or searching for work. The drop in unemployment since 2009 is almost entirely due to the fact that those not looking for work do not count as unemployed. Demographic factors explain less than one-quarter of the decreased labor force participation. The rest comes from increased school enrollment and more people collecting disability benefits. Over 6 percent of U.S. adults are now on Social Security Disability Insurance. This is no time to make it more difficult for businesses to create jobs."
Not Looking for Work, Labor Force Participation and Recovery
So Obama and the Democrats are going to make it more difficult for businesses to create jobs and flood the nation with millions more immigrants the vast majority of whom, as CIS and FAIR studies show, will sign up for social services just as quickly as they can resulting in a greater deficit and higher national debt despite most of them actually working.
The reason for this is because they are working very low paying jobs which are often seasonal and part time meaning they are eligible for social services programs which currently dominate the federal budget and many state and local budgets as well.
I keep repeating this forecast because it's so dire:
by 2020 just the interest payments which have to be paid out each year from the U.S. annual budget on the skyrocketing U.S. debt will exceed ALL U.S. military spending.
Understand? That means social services programs will HAVE to be cut back dramatically in order to pay the interest payments which are soon coming due on the national debt. The massive borrow and spend party is coming to an end within one to two decades.
The government is already preparing for it. Can't you tell? Homeland security has been handing out large six-figure grants to police departments all over the nation for years now to ensure they are prepared for the coming civil unrest which will result when the government's ability to hand out welfare is dramatically curtailed to meet their rapidly rising interest liabilities on the skyrocketing national debt.
Obviously, cramming as many millions of immigrants as possible into a dramatically overpopulated U.S. domestic labor market in a debt environment that is soon to force the curtailment of social services is exactly the WRONG thing to do. But then we have a government that tells elementary school children sodomy is moral so...