1. Posted on 4 May, 2012

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    More than 12 million Americans are unemployed, according to this morning’s big jobs report. But that doesn’t include people who are working part-time because they can’t find full-time work. Nor does it include people who want a job but haven’t looked for one in the past month. A less widely reported measure — sometimes called broader unemployment, or U-6 — includes both those groups. Some 22 million people fall into this category. Read more here.

    More than 12 million Americans are unemployed, according to this morning’s big jobs report.

    But that doesn’t include people who are working part-time because they can’t find full-time work. Nor does it include people who want a job but haven’t looked for one in the past month. A less widely reported measure — sometimes called broader unemployment, or U-6 — includes both those groups. Some 22 million people fall into this category.

    Read more here.