The unemployment numbers are worse than you think...

[elfs]

The U-6 is defined as the "Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers. Marginally attached workers are persons who currently are neither working nor looking for work but indicate that they want and are available for a job and have looked for work sometime in the recent past. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not looking currently for a job. Persons employed part time for economic reasons are those who want and are available for full-time work but have had to settle for a part-time schedule."

That number, of which I am part, currently stands at 17.5%

Comments

[littleone66.livejournal.com]

You're not making me feel any better :(

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I know, and I'm sorry. But it's really bugging the Hell out of me, since I've now been struggling for eight months without much goodness. I was glad to see you were being productive today, though.