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Unemployment Rate: How It's Calculated

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Math turns 158 million employed and 6 million unemployed into a 3.7 percent U-3, widens it to a 16.9 percent U-6 for the 2009 scenario, and checks the April 2020 chart reading of 14.7 percent against 22.8 percent.

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