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This article was very informative in terms of how the status of being “unemployed” can have a really negative impact on the psychological well-being of people in comparison to somebody who was employed in a low-paid job. One thing that I mentioned in my annotation for this article was the idea of a “discouraged worker”, an economic concept which describes an adult between 18-65 years old (legal employment age) and has not found employment after long-term unemployment. During this time however, this person was originally actively seeking employment, and eventually became discouraged to the point where they would be considered to have left the workforce because they stop seeking employment. I’d be curious to see how this concept would play into the article because this would most likely represent the lowest psychological well-being of somebody who has not only become unemployed, but has been classified as leaving the workforce in its entirety. I think in general, the article was well-written and used survey data really well. Building off this blogpost (http://courses.shroutdocs.org/dcs104-fall2018/2018/10/08/simpsons-paradox-is-the-data-telling-the-right-story/) from one of my classmates, I believe that it address a really important concept of how data can tell a story. In the context of this article, the data is telling a story, but is the story complete without considering the concept of a “discouraged worker”?