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by sireat 6069 days ago
You are right, it is a flawed number, it does not take into account "the discouraged(people who gave up looking for work)", "the startup(ie most of YC)", prisoners(1.5% of theworking population in US) and some other groups.

However, 10.2% unemployment even by flawed definition is still significant.