Broadly measured, job woes touch 1 in 6

That's the number of workers underemployed or unemployed, likely the highest figure since the Depression

By David Leonhardt / The Bulletin
November 7, 2009

For all the pain caused by the Great Recession, the job market still was not in as bad shape as it had been during the depths of the early 1980s recession — until now.

With the release of the jobs report on Friday, the broadest measure of unemployment and underemployment tracked by the Labor....

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