It's a Depression! Labor Force Participation Rate Plunges to 25-Year Low!

from Zero Hedge:

This chart needs no commentary. At 64.1%, the Labor Force Paritipcation rate just dropped to a fresh 25 year low: the civilian labor force declined by 272K from 153,693 to 153,421. And tangentially, the employment to population ratio also slumped to a multi decade low of 58.2%.

Jobs Participation Rate Plunges

Thanks to Zero Hedge for these charts:

We have heard much from the propaganda machine just how much better the jobs situation has gotten under president Obama three years into his term. We would like to interject with two very simple charts...
Chart 1

Chart 2

h/t John Poehlingjobs