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Photo by Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images.Paul Solman answers questions from the New stanley cup sHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday query:Name: Taylor VincentQuestion: Surprised by the significant change in the unemployment rate, I looked into the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers for the first time in a long time. Based on the numbers, the rate is correct. But I bumped into an issue which might be of interest the change in the Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate from 64.2 percent to 63.7 percent. This means that the ratio of worker to non-worker has fallen significantly. Since we look at the unemployment rate as a proxy for the economic strength and contribution of workers, should we also consider this offsetting factor What weight should we give it Paul Solman: It neve stanley cup r safe to assign much weight to mo stanley cup nth-to-month fluctuations in the government labor data. Here a longer-term picture for Americans 16 and older. The dramatic rise in the rate starting in the ;60s is mostly women entering the workforce. And male members of the Baby Boom, too, presumably, as its members reached working age. I myself, born a year ahead of the Boom, joined the workforce in 1969, near the bottom. Civilian labor force participation rate, 16 years and overA good number to track in the months ahead.The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the change in the rate on the first Friday of every month. Eisd Thursday: BP to Pump Cement into Well; Flooding Continues in Pakistan
Villagers find shelter under a destroyed house on the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra. Photo by Bay IsmoyoAFP/Getty Images.The death toll from the tsunami that st adidas campus ruck Indonesia rose to 343 Thursday as more bodies were found on remote islands. Officials said the number is likely to climb higher because hundreds of missing people may have been swept away. Elsewhere in Indonesia, the volcano that killed 33 people this week began erupting again, but there were no reports of new injuries or damage.Poor weather is slowing rescue efforts, the BBC reports, but an aid ship carrying food, water and medical supplies arrived i af1 n the disaster zone Thursday.The BBC, citing an Indonesian official, also reports that a crucial link in Indonesia tsunami warning system was not working during Monday tsunami because it had been vandalized. Foreclosures Up in Metro AreasForeclosure listing firm RealtyTrac said Thursday that the mortgage crisis intensified in metropolitan areas this summer, with Chicago and Seattle seeing a sharp increase in foreclosure warnings.Job Market Shows Positive SignsFewer people applied adidas originals for unemployment benefits last week, the Labor Department said Thursday. It the second drop in a row as initial claims for jobless benefits dropped by 21,000 to a seasonally adjusted 434,000 in the week that ended Oct. 23.France Might Withdraw From Afghanistan in 2011French Defense Minister Herve Morin said Thursday that France and some allied NATO armies could beg