Current Unemployment Situation

Most Recent BLS Data

Marginally attached workers are persons not in the labor force who want and are available for a job and who have looked for work sometime in the prior 12 months but were not counted as unemployed because they had not actively looked for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
Discouraged workers are a subset of the marginally attached; they are not currently looking for work specifically because they believe no jobs are available for them.

U-1: Persons unemployed 15 weeks or longer as a percentage of the civilian labor force.
U-2: Job losers and persons who completed temporary jobs as a percentage of the civilian labor force.
U-3: Total unemployed as a percentage of the civilian labor force (official unemployment rate).
U-4: Total unemployed plus discouraged workers as a percentage of the civilian labor force plus discouraged workers.
U-5: Total unemployed, plus discouraged workers, plus all other marginally attached workers as a percentage of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.
U-6: Total unemployed, plus all marginally attached workers, plus total employed part-time for economic reasons as a percentage of the civilian labor force plus all marginally attached workers.

The labor force participation rate is the percentage of the civilian noninstitutional population that is in the labor force.
The labor force includes all people who are either employed or actively seeking employment.