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Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag... by nradov on Saturday November 21, 2020 @08:47PM (#25174192)
The BLS does use U-6. They are literally the agency which calculates and publishes U-6. They aren't hiding anything.
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Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag... by omgwtfbyobbq on Sunday November 22, 2020 @12:32AM (#25175195)
Sorry, I meant the federal government should be using U-6.
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Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag... by nradov on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:15AM (#25175374)
They do use it. You can find U-6 mentioned in many federal government documents.
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Re:1 in 4 Americans are jobless or earning poverty-level wag... by omgwtfbyobbq on Sunday November 22, 2020 @01:23PM (#25179620)
I mean as the most commonly reported measure of unemployment. So use the measure that most people would intuitively view as unemployment (include discouraged workers, etc).
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