While our unemployment rate is a bit of good news at 4.1 percent and jobless claims seem to be continuing to trend downward, it is somewhat surprising, given those economic conditions, that over the last year labor force participation continued to decline.
Cotton highlights the paradox of low unemployment and declining labor force participation.
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