Even measured as a percentage of the overall labor force. the number of Americans who exhaust their benefits is at a record high. Strangely enough. at the same time we are refusing to provide extended benefits. the unemployment trust fund has built up an $8 billion surplus. Why are record numbers exhausting their benefits? Not because they are being pushed out of the labor force by new entrants. Baby boomers have already been absorbed. and the shock of large numbers of women. teenagers. and immigrants entering. as in the seventies and eighties. is over. The startling fact is. in the nineties. the labor force just is not growing. The record numbers are not explained by the depth of this recession.
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