There's another official rate rate you can check out. The "real" unemployment rate, which measures everybody considered unemployed plus a lot of others who are falling through the cracks. It's called the U-6 unemployment. The government publishes this data in the same monthly report as all the other official employment numbers, and anybody can find it on the Internet. In the US the U-6 unemployment is [b]16.2%[/b] and counting. You could also just count the "Americans-on-Food-Stamps"number. It's 46 Million.
The national monthly [1] and state annual average [2] "alternative measures of labor underutilisation" stats are easy to find, but do you know where to get monthly or quarterly data by state, or better, by county?
