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The US True Rate of Unemployment Is 23 Percent: Ludwig Institute

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Chad Hagan
Mar 20, 2024
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Published March 18, 2024

Soon after President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address, presidential candidate Robert R. Kennedy, Jr. released his own state of the union, where he claimed that if discouraged workers were included in current unemployment metrics, America’s unemployment rate would stand at 23 percent.

For the record, a discouraged worker is a…

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