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discouraged workers
Persons not in the labor force who want and are available for a job and who have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the past 12 months), but who are not currently looking because they believe there are no jobs available or there are none for which they would qualify.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Industry/Domain: Labor
- Category: Labor statistics
- Company: U.S. DOL
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- Levi Taylor
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