[Zakeet]

I consider the U6 unemployment figure to be a more accurate measure of unemployment than the U1-U5.

I believe the real unemployment figures are far far higher than reported.

For years, John Williams at Shadowstats.com has been applying current economic data to the government's historical definitions of various economic indicators (they change their algorithms as politics mandate). The above shows the current result of his exercise.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The ShadowStats data IMO is a much, much more accurate look at the total unemployment numbers for the US.