those collected unemployment benefits, or other work assistant subsidies. Those benefits run out and they are no longer counted. Also noted in the article you quoted is was that trump is wrong about california drought, according to officials
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Officials-More-than-40-percent-of-California-out-10852763.php?ipid=articlerecirc
http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/Officials-More-than-40-percent-of-California-out-10852763.php?ipid=articlerecirc
It's hard to say we have a drought here right now," said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California at Davis, an area near Sacramento that was awash after its heaviest rain in 20 years.