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It's even worse than that.
The real # is more like 22% un and under employment when adjusted for long term discouraged workers that the Feds do not count as unemployed.
Alternate Unemployment Charts
BLS publishes their methodology. Shadowstats' John Williams does not collect his own data (they use BLS data) and doesn't publish his methodology. To get his 22 percent he would have to include more people as unemployed than people who say they want to work (regardless of other factors/classifications). And that makes no sense at all.
okay, so what number would you stand by?