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by fengb 3574 days ago
Stay-at-home dads explains 2 million of this article's main statistic. So even if the remaining 5 million of the "needs work", the employment number is closer to 89%.

Edit: there's a reason economists usually use "looking for work" for unemployment numbers: it's really hard to gauge why people don't look for work.

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Stay-at-home by choice and stay-at-home due to inability to find gainful employment are very different demographics, though.

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/05/319214546/stay-at-home-dads-on...