April’s unemployment numbers were undercounted by 8.1 million. When these are added to the marginally employed, the rate is above the Great Depression’s 24.9%.

U.S. jobless rate has already broken Great Depression records — and most media missed it Media ran with the official jobless rate of 14.7% — even though the government admits it's really much ...

In the last six weeks—March 15 through April 25—30,307,000 people filed for unemployment for the first ... We’re even approaching the 23.6% of 1932 and 24.9% of '33 in the Great Depression.

U-6 is at 16.8% if we extarpolate this into Depression era - would easily by 22-23%. It does not feel like Depression now only because of the safety nets - Unemployment benefits,FDIC, food stamps etc.

We’re going to be looking at an unemployment rate that approaches rates that we saw during the Great Depression,” he said. “During the Great Recession …we lost 8.7 million jobs in the ...

Thanks to the coronavirus crisis, the United States is now facing its highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. The economy shed 20.5 million jobs in April, and the official ...

Great Depression Unemployment Levels Are on Tap Another week of very high jobless claims means that April’s U.S. unemployment report could touch levels not seen in most Americans’ lifetimes By ...

The U.S. unemployment rate exploded to 14.7% in April after more than 20 million jobs were lost to the coronavirus, but that is just the official number. The real jobless rate was at least 20%.

Read full article: Sunny day in Houston ahead of St. Patrick’s Day. Sometimes great ideas are born in moments of crisis. Such was the case for one Great Depression heroine, born 140 years ago ...

Great Depression-Like Jobless Rate Seen for U.S.: ... The median forecast in a Bloomberg survey calls for the jobless rate to rise to 19.6%, the highest since the Great Depression era of the 1930s.

Unemployment in the U.S. this year might not match the 25% peak during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but it could come pretty close. Millions of layoffs set to push unemployment rate to ...