Why people are dropping out of the workforce and not looking for new jobs: 'The market wore me down'

Job seekers are dropping out of the workforce altogether, exhausted by fruitless job searches. The trend is showing up in recent declines in the labor force participation rate, according to CNBC. When workers stop looking, they disappear from the official employment count.

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