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The Real Unemployment Rate is 23%:
How and Why Jobs are Vanishing from America

http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-realunemployment.shtml

The US has a "real" unemployment rate of 13.3%

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/6/15/82034/1813

There are different estimates of the number of unemployed and the unemployment rate (in percent). This paper explains the differences and adds other categories that might well be described as unemployed. While official unemployment in June 2006 is 4.8%, real unemployment is 12,3%, which includes those who want a job now but are classified as "not in the labor market" and additional jobs needed to keep up with population growth since April 2000 when employment began to decline.

http://www.exponentialimprovement.com/cms/unemploy.shtml