The Bureau of Labor Statistics released data Friday showing that about 93,000,000 people in the U.S. did not participate in the workforce in the month of May.
The data saw 92,986,000 people who weren't working in May, which is slightly less than the previous month's number that saw 93,194,000 people, according to Breitbart News.
The findings include 62.9 percent of the American population in the workforce in May 2015, a 0.1 percent increase from the previous year. Last month's participation rate was also a jump from April, which saw 62.8 percent of the population participate in the labor force.
The BLS refers to people not in the work force as those at least 16 years old who either don't have a job or haven't "made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week." This group included 37,035,000 men and 55,951,000 women.
Other findings include an increase in the civilian labor force from 157,072,000 in April to 157,469,000 in May, as well as 148,795,000 people in the workforce having a job and 8,674,000 people being unemployed, Breitbart News reported.
Other increases found in the data were in payroll employment, which grew by 280,000 in June, and the official jobless rate, which grew by 5.5 percent.
