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Unemployment Rate: How It's Calculated

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Morgan Ellis runs the BLS formula against three built scenarios, a calm labor market, the 2009 downturn, and a rebound year, so students compute U-3 and U-6 by hand before reading the April 2020 numbers off the real unemployment chart.

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