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Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday April 24, 2022 @11:17AM (#31144835)
> This link outright proves there are not 10 million men unemployed in America. https://www.statista.com/statistics/193244/unemployment-leve... So who's statistics are right?

Both of them are right, this is a common confusion in unemployment statistics. Unemployment as a technical term refers to people who both don't have a job and are "in the workforce", meaning they gave the right answers for the survey taker to conclude they're looking for a job. People who aren't trying to find a job are "out of the workforce" but not "unemployed".

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Re:No one expects young men to do anything and they are resp... by sokoloff on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:21PM (#31146099)
They aren’t in U-3 (the most commonly cited figure), but might be in U-4, U-5, or U-6 (or might be in school, retired, permanently disabled, or something else that most people wouldn’t think of as “unemployed”).

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2018/june/unemployment...

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