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I assume you are referring to the fact that the unemployment rate reported by the government is the amount of people who are looking for jobs but unable to find them and suggesting that the "real" unemployment rate is how many people actually are not working. There are actually a few different measures for this, which are displayed neatly in a few graphs on the link I'm attaching. No one can say what the "real" unemployment rate is, mainly because of the way the unemployment rate is really calculated. The unemployment rate is the percentage of the American people who are drawing unemployment insurance. It doesn't include people whose unemployment insurance has run out, people who have removed themselves voluntarily from the employment pool (stay at home mothers, people living on trust funds, etc.) and people who haven't ever been employed. A rough estimate is to take the "unemployment rate" and double it.

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