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Unemployment rates are high, but what about the underemployed? When they are counted, Oregon’s spring jobless rate jumps to 23.5%

By David Leonhardt / The Bulletin
July 15, 2009

In California and a handful of other states, one out of every five people who would like to be working full time is not now doing so.

It is a startling sign of the pain that the Great Recession is inflicting, and it is largely missed by the official, oft-repeated statistics on unemployment. The....

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