The Real Unemployment Rate; Writing off Discouraged Workers to Hide the Jobs Disaster Is Wrong
The official unemployment rate fell to 8.4% in August as businesses continued emerging from broad shutdowns imposed early in thecoronavirus pandemic, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. That's the lowest rate since unemployment exploded in April, tolevels unseen since the Great Depression...
A rise in the unemployment rate is not always a bad thing. The one-tenth point rise in the U-3 rate in March, for example, was a function of more potential workers getting out and looking for jobs. That could mean that previously marginalized workers are seeing progress in the job marke...
matter how well the economy is doing. The real unemployment rate stayed at 6.9% as the official rate dropped to 3.9% in December 2020. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate was 10.0% in October 2009, its highest after the 2008 recession. The real rate, however, was still a much higher 17.1%...
A couple of weeks back, Ihad a bit of funwith Donald Trump’s claim that the “real” unemployment rate is as high as 42 percent. That number is absurd — it would require counting everyone who isn’t working, including retirees, students and the disabled, as “unemployed.” But whether...
“处理,解决”,文中表达类似意思的短语还有很多:cope with,deal with 等,比如: The government has to grapple with the problem of unemployment.政府不得不设法解决失业问题。 2.xxx has knock-on effects “xxx 有连锁反应”,是一个比较实用的短语,可积累借鉴,比如:If one or two trains run late, it ha...
Signs of elevated labor market tightness emerged suddenly in mid-2021. The unemployment rate at the time was much higher than the 3.5 percent that had prevailed without major signs of tightness before the pandemic. Employment was still millions below its level on the eve of the pandemic. Looking...
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Unemployment Rate (seasonally adjusted) Unadjusted Unemployment by State Other Metrics The BLS publishes five alternative measures: U-1, U-2, U-4, U-5, andU-6. U-6 is often called the real unemployment rate, but U-3 is the only official unemployment rate. The others are measures of lab...
The U-6 measure is sometimes referred to as the "real" unemployment rate. Proponents of this measure claim that it represents the true nature of the unemployment problem because it also includes: People without jobs Those who would like to work but have not actively sought jobs in the past ...