https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/upshot/the-real-jobless-rate-is-42-percent-donald-trump-has-a-point-sort-of.html?_r=0
".....,.But back to Mr. Trump’s assertion that the true unemployment rate is more like 28 or 35 or 42 percent. Is there any plausible way to come up with a jobless rate at those kinds of levels?
As it happens, there is, and it’s right there near the top of the monthly jobless report. [redOnly 59.6 percent of the United States population was employed in January.
On the other side of that, a whopping 40.4 percent of the population is not employed......"