claim: "twenty-five or 24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: dec 30, 2015 ... people who are neither working nor looking for work are counted as “not ... of this  group, 38.5 million people reported retirement as the main reason for not working . .... from 2004 to 2014, the percentage of the population 20 to 24 years ... the  percentage of people 25 to 54 years who were not in the labor ...
evidence_2: jun 27, 2016 ... millions of men in the prime of their lives are missing from the labor ... the share  of prime-age men (ages 25-54) who are neither working nor looking for work has  ... unemployed or out of the workforce altogether—about 10 million men. .... the  labor force, mostly because they have stopped looking for work.
evidence_3: nov 4, 2012 ... look for the complete fact checks at the politifact online sites. ... the people who  are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking .... romney: "twenty-five or  24 million people" are "out of work or stopped looking for work.
evidence_4: may 18, 2017 ... nearly 20 million indian women quit work between 2004-05 to 2011- ... than 24  million men joined the work force between 2004-5 to 2009-10, ...
evidence_5: jun 5, 2018 ... there are 6.7 million job openings and just 6.4 million available workers to ...  published 12:25 pm et tue, 5 june 2018 updated 4:40 pm et tue, ... as of april , the total workers looking and eligible for jobs fell to 6.35 million, ...