Concealed Unemployment

  

When you hide the headlines on the U.S. unemployment rate with White-Out.

In reality, concealed or hidden unemployment refers to unreported unemployed people who have "fallen through the cracks."

These people are not reported in the unemployment figures that are released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s because these people have given up looking for employment.

They would prefer to still be working. But they...aren’t. Keyword: Uber.

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