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From 1999 To 2016, America Lost 11.4 Million People From the Workforce (washingtonpost.com)
Andrew Van Dam, writing for the Washington Post: Where did all the jobs go? Well, we're finally starting to find some satisfactory answers to the granddaddy of all economic questions. The share of Americans with jobs dropped 4.5 percentage points from 1999 to 2016 -- amounting to about 11.4 million fewer workers in 2016. At least half of that decline probably was due to an aging population. Explaining the remainder has been the inspiration for much of the economic research published after the Great Recession.
It has nothing to do with automation or anything else. The lazy moochers essentially gave those up by demanding living wages to flip burgers or stand at a counter asking "Do you want fries with that". Those jobs are nothing more than a first step for HS students entering into the workforce, not for lazy moochers wanting all the luxuries for doing next to nothing 20 hours a week. Even then they wouldn't be satisfied, take a look at the auto industry and the unions. They forced the big three to relocate across the border due to the ultra high wage demands for even something as simple as janitorial work. Today all 11.4m moochers are just being lazy by getting food stamps, Obamaphone, free internet, medicaid, pell grants for college and loans, etc. Then they turn around and sell their food stamps for drug money all the while going to countless soup kitchens, food pantries, clothing pantries, etc. Yes, they sell the food stamps for drug money and then go to the commie "churches" that continue to enable their drug habits. Time to end the welfare state, time to end the entitlements, time to #MAGA!!!