The decline in the unemployment rate to an 11-month low of 6.8% in June, from 7.1% as recently as April, is not as good as it looks. It went down primarily because people gave up looking for work not because they found jobs. As a result, the participation rate, which measures the proportion of the adult population in the labour force, dropped to a 16-year low of 65.5% in June.
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