Marginally Attached Worker

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016534",
  "term": "Marginally Attached Worker",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "Persons not in the labor force who want and are available for work, and who have looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months (or since the end of their last job if they held one within the past 12 months), but were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. Discouraged workers are a subset of the marginally attached.",
  "references": [
    "DOL Bureau of Labor Statistics Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/marginally-attached-worker/"
}