Friday, March 6, 2009

8.1% = 14.8%

By GottaLaff

Finally. I've been meaning to post this all morning:

The unemployment rate does not reflect people who say they would like to work full-time, but can only find part-time jobs, or who would like to be working but have given up finding employment because of the depressed market. When those categories are added to the number of unemployed -- technically those people who are actively seeking but unable to find jobs -- the government's "labor underutilization" rate measures 14.8 percent, up from 13.9 percent last month and 9.5 percent a year ago.
That's called "reality".

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