Are the re.a., the reason behind the drop. here is the host of sunday morning futures maria bartiromo. good morning. thank you so much. the people that left the labor force in april, 806,000. is this because they can t find good enough jobs or can t find work altogether. they are leaving, stopping looking because they can t find a job. while the numbers look good, more than 200,000 jobs created, it does not include the number of people who have actually left. it s a whole host of reasons. i think the most prominent reason is because they can t find a job, they get frustrated and they stop looking and they re not counted. why this measurement? why do we do it with this rate? same with the inflation rate. why is this the gold standard? it s a head scratcher. i really don t know why we do it this way. as long as we continue to watch the participation rate you can see the real numbers behind the numbers. the same thing happens with other economic data, like the ppi, why do we n ....