Why don't so many Americans feel a part of the economic recovery?  Well, let's look inside the numbers, as they like to say in sports. We saw a new jobs report on Friday.  Unemployment is now 5.5%, a good number that reminds one of yesteryear.  The report also came with another story about participation: The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the civilian non institutional population who participated in the labor force by either having a job during the month or actively seeking one. In February, according to BLS, the nation’s civilian non institutional population, consisting of all people 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 249,899,000. Of those, 157,002,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one. The 157,002,000 who participated in the labor force was 62.8 percent of the 249,899,000 civilian noninsttutional...(Read Full Post)