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A fact from Discouraged worker appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the United States Department of Labor first began tracking discouraged workers in 1967 and found 500,000 at the time?

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Adding New Section - Australia[edit]

I plan to add a new section to the page regarding Discouraged Workers in Australia. As part of this I will also include information about their aboriginal population and the differences between this sub-group and the greater population as a whole. Cgsheehan (talk) 01:25, 11 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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