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U-6 BLS Unemployment Measure

U-6 is the BLS measure of total unemployed, plus all people marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons, as a percent of the civilian labor force. It is released at the beginning of each month in BLS Household Data Table A-15, Alternative measures of labor underutilization.

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