Business Report: Alternative measures of unemployment

Updated: Jul. 22, 2019 at 11:34 AM HST
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - There are six different ways the Department of Agriculture measures unemployment.

In this Illustrated Economics, Howard Dicus uses legos to visually demonstrate alternative measures of unemployment.

The numbers he explains are jobless rates averaged over a full 12 months through the end of the first quarter.

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