We keep getting unemployment reports that have little to do with true unemployment. It’s yet another case of the administration getting away with chicanery for which the executives of a private enterprise would be arrested. Right now the unemployment rate is supposedly a bit over 6%. The media tells us so, and they are out to report on all the dirt they can find, or so they say.
But if you look even deeper in the monthly U-6 unemployment rate, which
includes folks who are underemployed and seeking full-time jobs that they can't find, that rate is much higher.
By the way, the U-6 number doesn't include those who have given up seeking work.
I would suggest viewers look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics site at bls.gov for details on the different facets of unemployment the media forgets about. (See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole tweets.)
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