[SeekAndFind]

Which is bullshit of the highest order...it is closer to 18%...

You're telling me close to 1 in 5 employable Americans are out of a job ? Where are you getting this super pessimistic data from ?

[moose2004]

Isn’t the real unfiltered number 17.5%?

[wbill]

Search on U-6 unemployment figures. jessduntno tells the truth.

Of course, using these same figures, unemployment was much higher during the Bush years, as well. Can't have it both ways. :-)

[WOBBLY BOB]

Unemployment Is Really at 22.1%

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2009/11/unemployment-is-really-at-221.html

NyPo’s John Crudele reports on the latest numbers from Shadow Government Stats and fills in a bit more on how the government is able to whittle down the number to 10.1%: My friend John Williams of Shadow Government Stats thinks the true unemployment rate would be 22.1 percent if everyone — all discouraged former workers, encouraged, involuntary part-timers and the like — were included.

[jessduntno]

Seek and find, Seek and Find;

http://www.examiner.com/x-21037-Illinois-Statehouse-Examiner~y2009m11d7-27-million-Americans-without-fulltime-work-real-unemployment-tops-175