How to understand the unemployment rate – an explanation from Pew Research

When you see updated statistics on the unemployment rate, locally or nationally, do you ever wonder exactly what is being measured? How are these numbers collected and what do they represent? In fact, there are six different measurements of unemployment that are used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and this article gives a good explanation of all of them.

Take a look: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/07/employment-vs-unemployment-different-stories-from-the-jobs-numbers/