“Do you mean the U-3 number? The U-6 number is over 22% today (and approaches 23% with the latest data).”
I suppose it’s a nit, but I think you are wrong. The graph you posted shows U-6 at around 17%. It is the “SGS Alternate” number that is around 22%. Again, I suggest sticking with U-6, which is much more that U-3 but significantly less than SGS Alternate.
But, we still are in lala land with the Gubmit fudging the real numbers.
Here is a little wrench in the gears as well: soon, hundreds of thousands of people may lose their perpetual unemployment checks (which some people have been collecting for almost 2 years!)
When that happens, they automatically come off the U-3 list, and go on the U-6 list! So, will Labor tell us how unemployment just dropped like mad?