CUT IN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ARE PARTLY TO BLAME.
In June, about 2.6 million persons were marginally attached to the
labor force, an increase of 415,000 from a year earlier. (The data
are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor
force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job
sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed
because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the
survey. (See table A-16.)
