- Those who had to give up looking for new work that matched their previous salary and skillset by taking the best available part-time work, having exhausted savings or other options.
- Those who haven’t reported looking for work in the past four weeks for whatever reason.
- Those who took a lesser, but full-time job to get by in the meantime.
- Those who exceeded the maximum period of unemployment benefits, of which there are many.
- Those who left the workforce entirely.
- Those who are being put on continual furlough by their employer.

The unemployment rate decreases automatically, on its own, by virtue of time passing. Although I would imagine the next thing they’d try to selectively exclude from that unemployment figure is anyone with blue eyes. Because people with blue eyes shouldn’t be working anyway. Or brown eyes.

Get laid off from a decent paying job with respectable benefits, go take a job at McDonalds or bagging at a grocer, and things are A-Okay.