The causes of the growing malaise in society today ...

[Chris]

Under employment is the issue. For example a college grad qualified to make a grand a week spending three years working 24 hours a week at 15.00 an hour before getting a job in his field is only employed at 36 %.Peter makes a valid point that U-6 looks more deeply than the stated UE rate, but it does not really address under employment effectively.

Underemployment is at all-time lows:

[Captdon]

Under employment is the issue. For example a college grad qualified to make a grand a week spending three years working 24 hours a week at 15.00 an hour before getting a job in his field is only employed at 36 %.Peter makes a valid point that U-6 looks more deeply than the stated UE rate, but it does not really address under employment effectively.

100 grads and 800 jobs. The 200 moan and quit.

[donttread]

Underemployment is at all-time lows:

Under what criteria? I doubt that they take in all the factors that my simple examples does.

[Chris]

Under what criteria? I doubt that they take in all the factors that my simple examples does.

The chart show unemployment under all criteria. It's general for the US.

Automation is not replacing but displacing workers.