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Comment by lmpdev

Unemployment is also a poor metric in and of itself as it discounts large groups of people

Participation rate is much more meaningful IMO

Example, the participation rate is currently ~67%, so its inverse is 33%.

This means that 33% of the working age population are currently not employed

parent lmpdev 2 years ago

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