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Re:What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America by dsr_ on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:42PM (#16595446)
Specifically, you are looking for various measures of "not in the labor force" -- called U1 through U6.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

U6 is: Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force

The national U6 right now is 9.2 (unadjusted).

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Re:What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America by anthony_romeo on Thursday March 15, 2018 @04:08PM (#16596140)
Also worth noting that U-3 is an international definition of unemployment. If different countries use different definitions, then comparing rates among countries would be pretty much meaningless.
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Re:What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America by copper_think on Thursday March 15, 2018 @02:51PM (#16595522)
It says 8.6 on the page
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Re:What Record-Low Unemployment Looks Like in America by protomyth on Thursday March 15, 2018 @03:06PM (#16595646)
dsr_ followed the column down a bit off and got the Feb 2017 seasonally adjusted number (they are one column apart) - they should really separate those better
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