How you can help the economy

The latest unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, which the administration calls "a bump on the road to recovery."

The "bump" is more like an iceberg, because it's what we don't see that matters. What we don't see in the official number are the people who have given up looking for work.
The labor force has dropped by 529,000 workers. The percentage of adults in the labor force is a figure that