[JNB]

The U6 is the the way the unemployment rate used to be tabulated. This is from the BLS itself. The pre schooler comment just further indicates to me that dogmatic free traders have no real leg to stand on, other than the WSJ editorial pages saying "Free Trade is good".

[1rudeboy]

So the figure was changed because the free-trader cabal determined that it should be. Riiiiiight.