An article in the Wall Street Journal noted that over a four-month period in late 2014, employment in the state of Georgia "rose 1% even as the state's jobless rate climbed 1.2 percentage points." Source: Cameron McWhirter and Ben Leubsdorf, "Rising Jobless Rates Are a Southern Mystery," Wall Street Journal, October 5, 2014. The state's unemployment rate could have increased at the same time that employment in the state was increasing because A. a large number of discouraged workers left the labor force. B. the state's entire population decreased. C. the number of discouraged workers and other people not previously counted as unemployed entered the labor force. D. the state's entire population increased.