Record-Breaking 105 Million Americans Not Working, Surpassing Great Recession, COVID PandemicJohn Nolte 22 Jul 2026
As of June, a record number of 105 million American adults are NILF (Not In Labor Force), per the Federal Reserve.
“The record comes after a massive surge of 832,000 workers dropping out of the labor force in June alone. The overall number of NILFs is higher than at the height of the Great Recession or the COVID pandemic,” reports the New York Post. “Leading labor economist Nicholas Eberstadt told The Post that drilling down into the data reveals a startling pattern of dropouts, particularly among men.”
A NILF is defined as anyone over 16 not working. There is one catch: that number includes students and retirees. In fact, 50 percent of those 105 million are retirees, most of whom are older than 65.
Still, some 23.3 million NILFs are receiving benefits such as disability for long-term health issues.
“Very roughly speaking, there are about 7 million of these men who are out of the labor force for the 25-to 54-year-olds,” Eberstadt told the Post, adding that there is “a growing group of dropout women who are neither working nor looking for work, have no children under the same roof with them, and no husband present.”
He puts the number at 3.5 million females.
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