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The headlines are misleading you about unemployment
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From Zero Hedge:

With economic optimism back over the U-3 data, which was "surprisingly" not impacted by mid-winter snow, many seem to have missed that real unemployment, or the BLS' U-6 series actually climbed by 0.3%, to 16.8% from 16.5% in January.

Additionally, the Non-Seasonally Adjusted U-6 number was barely changed, and was flat at 17.9%, just a hair away from...

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