Junk “factoid” journalism.
No indication if this number is up or down.
Nor reason to doubt that it includes full-time students who wouldn’t necessarily even want jobs.
I totally agree. The 16-29 range seems like a ridiculous one to use. It includes both young adults, who should be working and high school and college students who might or might not want or need jobs.
A 23-29 year old range would seem much more useful to me.
I have no doubt Obamanomics is a disaster, but this statistic is useless.