Johnson is a self-employed painter. On most days, he paints room interiors alone. From time to time, however, he has taken on exterior house-painting jobs, which pay implicitly higher hourly rates. Whenever he has tackled home exteriors, he has usually hired his daughter, who will be 18 years old next week, to help after school. Johnson has not landed an exterior painting job in a couple of months, so he has not required his daughter’s assistance during that time. Johnson is hoping to expand his thriving painting business into a larger operation. To learn more about how to function in the business world, he is taking business courses at the local community college in the evenings. Currently, he is enrolled in a course in principles of macroeconomics, and his class has just discussed how the labor force and the unemployment rate are measured. Now Johnson is wondering whether his daughter is technically part of the labor force but unemployed. She just graduated from high school and had been actively looking for a job until about a week ago, when she gave up looking any further. In fact, Johnson is not even certain whether he, as an actively self-employed individual, is currently included as an employed member of the labor force. 

Is Johnson’s daughter currently part of the labor force but unemployed?