By Any Measure, Joblessness Is Falling but Still Historically High Seasonally adjusted RECESSION
Although the official unemployment rate was down to 6.2% in July (figures from August are due out Sept. 5), many economists and other analysts have concluded that that measure doesn’t fully capture what’s happened to the U.S. economy since the Great Recession officially ended in the summer of 2009. An alternate measure, dubbed U-6 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, adds two more groups to the officially unemployed: people who are considered “marginally attached” to the labor force, in that they want and are available to work but haven’t looked for a job recently, and people working part-time for economic reasons rather than by their own choice (also called “involuntary” part-time workers).
By Any Measure, Joblessness Is Falling  | but Still Historically High  | Seasonally adjusted  | RECESSION  | 20%  | DEC 2007-JUN. 2009  | 15  | 12.2%  | 9. 9  | underemployment Unemployment+  | 10  | underemployment Unemployment+  | 5.7  | 6. 2%  | "Official"  | 5  | unemployment  | rate  | 1904  | 06  | 1998  | 10  | '12  | 14  | Note: Unde remployment includes those who are marginally atta ched" and those  | who are "involuntary' part-time workers.  | Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 