What do you personally estimate the U.S unemployment to be?
The BLS says it's 4.7%, but I think it's closer to 15%.
What do you personally estimate the U.S unemployment to be?
Lucas Cook
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Adam Martin
So that's just how you feel? Based on anecdotal accounts?
Zachary Bennett
Closer to 20% when you consider adults who have just quit looking for work. Correlates with rise in higher suicide rates among middle class white men over 40.
Thanks, China.
Joseph Russell
It's probably 30%
It'll be around 30% when Trump gets into office. That's the true data. Worse than shadow statistics.
Levi Moore
12.5% for those with the ability to take a job tomorrow if offered
Charles Brown
Unemployment may be down, but the figures are not including "underemployment".
I bet real unemployment is about 7% and underemployment is probably close to 20%.
Brayden Howard
>20%
30% Easy
50% maybe
Honestly, we are fucked.
Ryder Rivera
Just finished high school and I've been looking for a job since January. Still nothing. I'm happy I wasn't accepted to university or else I would be fucked after finishing. The debt would just pile up and the bank would fuck me in the ass for the next 5 - 10 years.
Isaac Hill
Military, Trade School, or University as a last resort.
A high school diploma won't get you by anymore.
Charles Perez
data.worldbank.org
If this data is correct, labour participation rate in the US is 62%, which means that 38% of people of working age are neither employed nor looking for a job.
Judging from the comments in this thread, Veeky Forumsraelites are giving quite good estimates. I'm legitimately surprised.