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by yummyfajitas 6068 days ago
Unemployment does not tell you this, but discouraged workers does.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm

There are 808,000 such people (as of october), up from 484,000 in october 2008.

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Interesting. If you look at those numbers, the amount of people who used to work more is also declining, meaning people aren't earning as much as they used to from more than one job.