Source:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release:
Alternative Measures of Labor Underutilization for States
Units:
Persons, 4-Quarter Moving Average, Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:
Quarterly
Notes:
The BLS defines discouraged workers as persons who are not in the labor force, want and are available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They are not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the prior 4 weeks, for the specific reason that they believed no jobs were available to them.
Suggested Citation:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics,
Not in Labor Force: Discouraged Workers for Wyoming [DISCWORKWY],
retrieved from FRED,
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis;
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DISCWORKWY,
February 28, 2021.