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%

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How about an unemployment rate of 28.3% ??

[(Anonymous)]

In Anacostia, a good sized section of Washington, DC, the current unemployment rate is 28.3%.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Unemployment-stats-paint-a-tale-of-two-cities-8492016-69332382.html

Most of the residents of Anacostia are mostly poor to working class blacks who usually do not have beyond a high school education so they can't get the kind of jobs that are being created that need a college degree and such.