[Stardust]

That is a good question. The BLS reports the number of people that it deems to have given up looking for work, which it therefore excludes from its calculation of the unemployment rate - but the media focuses on the unemployment rate especially with a Democrat in the White House seeking another term.

Even if you believe that the economy is headed in the right direction, I would like to know what you believe that Obama has done to turn it around. Instead of demanding that the U.S. Senate follow federal law and pass a budget, Obama is demonizing Paul Ryan, one of the few people in Congress who has dared propose a budget that to address the runaway national debt. This is not how a leader behaves in the face of an economic disaster.

I would like to see the facts to back the question when it is given. The facts dictate that this country is far worse than it was before Obama took office!