Too Few Worker Bees

We've written a couple of times about people leaving the workforce. Here is a really startling graphic showing the relative numbers of people added to those not in the workforce (8 million) and people added to the workforce (800 thousand).

The graphic covers the period from January, 2009, to the present; the period of the Obama presidency. The ratio is ten to one; this hasn't been a period of growth.

We see the graphic courtesy of The Weekly Standard.  The Senate Budget Committee developed it from Bureau of Labor Statistics data.