Apr 28
...it is important to remember that the reserve army [of labor] is much larger than the officially unemployed. For example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics put official unemployment at 5.5 million in April of 2000, but another 3.1 million people work part time when they would rather have a full-time job, and 4.4 million who need jobs are off the recording charts because they gave up looking and are not counted. The real jobless rate is closer to 13.0 million or 8.9 percent of the population—more than twice the official rate.
Marta Russell, Capitalism and Disability
