We are talking an overall labor participation rate not seen since the Regan recession of '82. Many people have been out of work for so long, they simply are no longer counted in the statistics, i.e., the don't officially exist. Those workers that have been lucky enough to find jobs in this so-called 'recovery' are working for less. But then Wall Street just chalked up another all-time record high, so why worry?
You do have a choice in America: feel good and swallow the Kool-Aide®, or face the real facts of economic oppression.