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leveymg

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Sat Apr-04-09 01:20 PM
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108. That group of involuntarily P/T is included in the BLS U6 measure

Edited on Sat Apr-04-09 01:21 PM by leveymg

See,

Table A-12. Alternative measures of labor underutilizationFor more information, see "BLS introduces new range of alternative unemployment measures," in the October 1995 issue of the Monthly Labor Review. ...
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t12.htm - 22k - Cached - Similar pages

Unemployment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaNote: "Marginally attached workers" are added to the total labor force for unemployment rate calculation for U4, U5, and U6. The BLS drastically revised the ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment

I don't want to get into the NAFTA argument, specifically.

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