The official U.S. unemployment rate fell again in March to a pandemic low of 6% after the U.S. economy created 916,000 jobs, the Labor Department reported Friday, but the real level of joblessness is much higher.
Normally the number is not extremely high, but the pandemic induced a whopping 8 million people to suddenly drop out of the 164 million-strong labor force.Another smaller but persistent problem: Some people keep telling the government they still have a job even though they are not actually working. “When adjusting for people that have dropped out of the labor force and the lingering misclassification, the unemployment rate remains around 9%,” according to lead U.S. economist Lydia Boussour of Oxford Economics.
good luck
More like 15% - 18%
I know some people who have just given up.