"Combined the 14 millions official unemployed; the "underemployed" part-timers (8.8 million) who want fulltime work; and "discouraged" people (2.6 million) who have stopped looking make up 16.2 percent of working age Americans."

In an article on the front page of the local paper. Wonder why such info is finally out there? Is it because we have a democrat in office? Because they want to keep better track? Or because the corporate media is finally putting it out there to make him look bad? Always annoyed me that instead of this breakdown, the underemployed and the people out of work for more than 6 months were ignored.