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Unemployment Rate: How It's Calculated

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The formula gets worked by hand, unemployed over the labor force multiplied by 100, landing on a 2026 U-3 of 4.1 percent, then U-6 gets computed at 7.6 percent by adding discouraged and underemployed workers before April 2020's real spike gets pulled straight off a two-line chart.

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