Marginally attached to the labor force

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ECS-001133",
  "term": "Marginally attached to the labor force",
  "field": "Economic statistics",
  "definition": "People not in the labor force who want and are available for work, and who have looked for a job sometime in the previous 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the previous 12 months), but were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.\n\nNote: Discouraged workers are a subset of the marginally attached.",
  "references": [
    "BLS Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/economic-statistics/marginally-attached-to-the-labor-force/"
}