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Unemployment Rate: How It's Calculated

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Both formulas get completed step by step, seven million unemployed over a 170 million labor force for 4.1 percent, then 13 over 171.5 million for 7.6 percent U-6, pulling April 2020's real spike, 14.7 percent against 22.8 percent, straight off the chart.

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