U-6 Unemployment Statistic Now At 16.5%
The U-6, which some claim is the "real" unemplyment rate, rose to 16.5% in June from 16.4% in May. It is up from 10.3% in June of 2008.
U-6 is 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.
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.
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