Labor shortage! The real unemployment rate is probably under 4%

Michael Busler
4 min readMay 26, 2021

If an unemployed worker is not actively seeking a job, they should not be counted in the unemployment rate.

According to the Commerce Department, the current unemployment rate is 6.1%. That’s up slightly from the 6% rate recorded in March. Surprisingly with the economy probably growing at an 8% rate this quarter, the number of new workers should have been…

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Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.