"Still, Priebus’ comment, tying the entirety of the drop in the labor force participation rate to “the Obama economy,” ignores some of the demographic and structural forces that have been driving the participation rate down for more than a decade, and that are expected to continue to drive the rate down for decades to come."
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
https://i.imgur.com/5YFhBpx.png
As well as the labor force declining in general:
http://www.factcheck.org/2015/03/declining-labor-participati...
"Still, Priebus’ comment, tying the entirety of the drop in the labor force participation rate to “the Obama economy,” ignores some of the demographic and structural forces that have been driving the participation rate down for more than a decade, and that are expected to continue to drive the rate down for decades to come."