[DannyTN]

"If the clowns in D. C. were physicians, they’d be paying massive amounts of money for malpractice."

I agree. You're 22.8% is pretty close to what shadowstats.com is reporting. They started tracking unemployment back when Clinton defined the long-term unemployed out of existence.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks DannyTN. Here's what I worked up a while back. LINK

There you'll find a spread-sheet that includes about 50 years of data. If you'll stick with it, I think the data I worked up reveals an unemployment rate of 22.987%.

As of January 2013, we should have had very close to 175.086 million workers in the U. S. Instead we only had 134.839. That's a spread of over 40 million. Dividing 134 by 175 gives you about 77% and change of our work force employed. That leaves just short of 23% unemployed.

As I mentioned in the earlier post, this doesn't address the issue of multiple jobs, and people working for much less than they used to. 23% is therefore only the tip of the iceberg.

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