[Steve_Seattle]

"Headline is misleading. There are 5+ million part-time workers who say they would prefer to work full-time. These people are the so-called “involuntary part-time workers.”

Thank you. Too many people see this stat about "people out of the workforce" and forget that it includes retirees, children, prisoners, and others not even looking for work. It does not mean that there are 95 million people who are looking for jobs and can't find them.

[riverdawg]

See my post #7 for further clarification of the working-age, non institutional population. It is comprised of persons age 16+ who are not institutionalized (i.e., not in prison, not in a residential mental health facility, etc.).

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Too many people see this stat about “people out of the workforce” and forget that it includes retirees, children, prisoners, and others not even looking for work.

OK, let’s take away the children ( what age is one considered a child?), retirees and prisoners , how many of the 95 million are left who are not in the labor force then?