From InstaPundit: EVEN THE WAPO IS POINTING OUT THAT THE NUMBERS DON’T WORK: The Incredible Shrinking Labor Force. “If the same percentage of adults were in the workforce today as when Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 11.1 percent. If the percentage was where it was when George W. Bush took office, the unemployment rate would be 13.1 percent.”
But not to worry: according to Obama, those missing workers didn’t drop out of the job market in discouragement - they, like “Julia”, have retired on their generous Social Security payments and are now “volunteering in a community garden”.

A significant number of these disappearing workers have moved into the social security disability system, which as you know, Obama wants to keep expanding this by denying disability judges the opportunity to gather information about applicants from the applicants own social media postings. Obama is deliberately expanding government dependent types through Food Stamps and disability. Whatever the intent, the result is to buy votes with public money.
dont forget the million or so illegals that went back home