claim: "the biggest contribution" behind a decrease in u.s. unemployment "was 1.2 million people leaving the workforce"
author: newt gingrich
evidence_1: may 5, 2018 ... but a major force driving it has been people leaving the labor force for ... erik  sherman contributor ... u.s. unemployment fell to a near historic low of 3.9  percent and ... maybe the relative unemployment numbers will finally drop so low  that ... i'm a freelance journalist, author, and writer whose work has ...
evidence_2: feb 3, 2016 ... according to the bureau of labor statistics, 1.2 million vacancies will emerge ...  in 2050, an estimated 88.5 million people in the u.s. will be aged 65 and older. ...  nearly 700,000 nurses are projected to retire or leave the labor force by 2024.* ...  “as those numbers [of nurse educators] drop, schools have to ...
evidence_3: unemployment in the united states discusses the causes and measures of u.s.  unemployment .... as of june 2018, approximately 128.6 million people in the  united states have ... family responsibilities keep some others out of the labor  force. ... unemployment tends to rise during recessions and fall during  expansions.
evidence_4: because of the decreasing labor force participation rate of youths and the prime  age ... the u.s. labor force is projected to reach 163.5 million in 2022. .... the  main component of population change—and the greatest uncertainty in  population ..... years and then declines sharply after age 55 as workers leave the  labor force.
evidence_5: c) the unemployment rate is the number of persons who are unemployed .... 21)  in an economy, 42 million people are in the labor force, 38 million are .... c) (the  number of unemployed workers)/(the u.s. population older than 16 years of age)  × .... now assume that 10 people drop out of the labor force and that 10 remain.