Thursday, December 9, 2010

Unemployment Has Topped 10.5 Percent for 18 Months | CEPR Blog

That's horrifying. Incidentally, David Rosnick is one of the world's most renowned economist and his opinions should be taken very seriously.
Unemployment Has Topped 10.5 Percent for 18 Months | CEPR Blog: "The official unemployment rate is a fine statistic as far as it goes. As unacceptable as 9.8 percent unemployment is on its face, it understates the historical depth of trouble in the labor market today. The U-6 alternative measure of unemployment is at 17.0 percent—more than 1 in 6 workers who have not completely dropped out of the labor force are unemployed or underemployed. Only 58.2 percent of the population age 16 and over are employed — the lowest rate of employment since the summer of 1983."

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