{"id":281813,"date":"2010-02-05T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/huge-improvement-in-marginally-attached-workers-is-a-great-sign-for-the-labor-market-2010-2"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:08:00","slug":"huge-improvement-in-marginally-attached-workers-is-a-great-sign-for-the-labor-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/281813","title":{"rendered":"HUGE Improvement In &#8220;Marginally Attached&#8221; Workers Is A Great Sign For The Labor Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/news.release\/empsit.t15.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4aa4f5ee234c825429e176d5\/unemployedanddepressedjpg.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"unemployedanddepressed.jpg\" \/>U-6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the internal, line-item from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-january-jobs-report-2010-2\">BLS jobs report<\/a> that&#8217;s frequently referred to as the &#8220;real unemployment rate&#8221; because it captures so-called discouraged workers who have simply stopped looking for a job.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s usually way above the headline unemployment report.<\/p>\n<p>For example, last month unemployment was at 10% but U-6 was at 17.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Well this time, it was not a red flag. It, too, fell big time sequentially to 16.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the whole survey is a little bit confusing, becuase they&#8217;ve made some revisions, but for once, this is not a barking dog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/huge-improvement-in-marginally-attached-workers-is-a-great-sign-for-the-labor-market-2010-2#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-january-jobs-report-2010-2\">Unemployment: 9.7%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/average-duration-of-unemployment-hits-brand-new-record-in-january-2010-2\">Average Duration Of Unemployment Hits Brand New Record In January<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/v9bnyqKEoNA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U-6. That&#8217;s the internal, line-item from the BLS jobs report that&#8217;s frequently referred to as the &#8220;real unemployment rate&#8221; because it captures so-called discouraged workers who have simply stopped looking for a job. It&#8217;s usually way above the headline unemployment report. For example, last month unemployment was at 10% but U-6 was at 17.3%. Well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}