Where are the Unemployed Americans?

Are we focusing on the right thing?

Everybody is asking: where are the unemployed people?

Businesses are crying about lack of employees and high rates of turnover as people quit to pursue other jobs. The question is: if all these businesses were “fully” staffed before the pandemic, where have the employees gone.

Here are some stats and below I’ll theorize about what’s really going on.

In the US, there are 258 million adults over the age of 18.

Of those, there are 54 million over the age of 65 who deserve to retire and enjoy peace.

158 million have some form of W-2 job* and

10 million are self employed.

There are only 6.9 million people looking for work who do not have a job or business.

158mil employed 6.9 unemployed 258mil adults over 18

54 mil over age 65 10 mil self employed

What do the numbers show?