What the US unemployment rate doesn’t tell you
by Rashida Kamal from on (#5QJ84)
The true measure of unemployment depends on who you ask
Just how healthy is the US jobs market? On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its latest jobs report, showing that the US added a disappointing 194,000 jobs last month while announcing that the official unemployment rate fell to 4.8%, the lowest it's been since its frightening climb to 14.7% when the Covid-19 pandemic first struck the US.
The figures seem somehow disconnected and, for some, September's headline figure is woefully misleading, as it is every month. What if the true" unemployment rate is actually closer to 22%?
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