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Unemployment Rate: How It's Calculated

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Questions identify which scenario counts as unemployed under the official U-3 rule, work out the rate from 8 million jobless against a 160 million labor force, and explain why U-6 sits higher than U-3. Students explain how U-3 can drop even without a single new hire.

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