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by skrowl 1653 days ago
Everyone that's looking for a job can find a job (good job market / lots of openings)

..is VERY different than...

Everyone capable of working is actually working (full employment)

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By your definition of full employment, the US has never had "full" employment.
There is a canonical definition and that's just that there is no more demand-deficient unemployment. Meaning it doesn't even require U3 to hit 0 let alone LFPR to hit 100%. It allows for churn, underemployment as well as unemployables. It's not a metric of achieving utopia, just a situation with almost no slack in the labor market for employers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment