They didn't stop, these folks have never been counted in U3, the most commonly cited measure of unemployment. BLS publishes multiple unemployment rates, six in

They didn't stop, these folks have never been counted in U3, the most commonly cited measure of unemployment. BLS publishes multiple unemployment rates, six in fact, that capture different aspects of the issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#United_States_Bureau_of_Labor_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment#United_States_Bur...