Bureau of Labor Alternative measures of labor under utilization U-6 Unchanged at 14.7%

bls.gov ^ | Oct 5 2012 | U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

[NoLibZone]

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Table A-15. Alternative measures of labor underutilization

[Percent]

Measure	Not seasonally adjusted			Seasonally adjusted
	Sept. 2011	Aug. 2012	Sept. 2012	Sept. 2011	May 2012	June 2012	July 2012	Aug. 2012	Sept. 2012
U-1 Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer, as a percent of the civilian labor force	5.2	4.3	4.2	5.3	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.3
U-2 Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs, as a percent of the civilian labor force	5.0	4.4	4.0	5.2	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.2
U-3 Total unemployed, as a percent of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate)	8.8	8.2	7.6	9.0	8.2	8.2	8.3	8.1	7.8
U-4 Total unemployed plus discouraged workers, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers	9.4	8.7	8.0	9.6	8.7	8.7	8.8	8.6	8.3
U-5 Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other persons marginally attached to the labor force, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force	10.2	9.7	9.0	10.5	9.6	9.7	9.7	9.6	9.3
U-6 Total unemployed, plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force plus all persons marginally attached to the labor force	15.7	14.6	14.2	16.4	14.8	14.9	15.0	14.7	14.7
NOTE: Persons marginally attached to the labor force are those 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 past 12 months. Discouraged workers, a subset of the marginally attached, have given a job-market related reason for not currently looking for work. 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. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

[Democrat_media]

This is criminal fraud , an October surprise and the media keeps reporting it as truth.This is lies from Obama ‘s corrupt government. Obama’s government agency
magically found biggest number of jobs in 29 years, almost 900,000 jobs to lower the unemployment rate by redefining what is a job or who is working:

Total employment ‘highest one-month jump in 29 years’...

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/10/05/number-employed-people-rises-873000-september-highest-december-2008

BLS economists donate to Obama campaign...
http://freebeacon.com/meet-the-obama-donors-at-the-bls/

[cripplecreek]

There are a lot of very rural counties where there were few jobs to begin with and a lot of people were self employed. I’m guessing that unemployment in a lot of those counties is north of 20%.

[Don Corleone]

If ‘Big Al’ Capone was still alive he’d have the free soup kitchens going again in Chicago.

[Dutch Boy]

Remember when Bush had the worst economy since Hoover? The U6 was about 9.4%.