Unstated, attitude and drug-use level of the jobless.
You can use people who have low reading level, or who do not know algebra. People who have an angry attitude, people who fight with co-workers or curse at customers, people who steal from you if your back is turned, people who don't show up because they're too stoned -- THOSE are people which businesses have little interest in.
Which is another way of saying they are unemployable. Politicians ignore the root cause of unemployment for this group. They are unemployed because they have nothing to offer an employer.
I should add that is ironic that these folks are being judged by the content of their character.