Americans Not In The Labor Force Soar To Record 95.1 Million: Jump By 446,000 In One Month

[Superfluous Man]

By that chart, it starts about 1998.

You need your vision checked.

It bounces around between 66 and 67 from the 80's until 2009. It dropped under that and stayed on a downward trend since 2009. Even if you want to go all the way back to when it came off its high, that's still 2000.