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Subject OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 8.1% ? Pfffft ~ Dept. Labor Buries REAL STATS ~ 16% !

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Original Message So...the rate of unemployment for February is 8.1%

Check this table at the Dept. of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics website:

[link to www.bls.gov]

Note the U-6 Measure:

U-6 ~ Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers,* plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.

NOTE: Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule.

UNADJUSTED: 16.0%

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED: 14.8%

One out of every SEVEN workers.

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