I think it has to do with politics. But more on that later. Let’s first see how the unemployment rates are calculated.
As mentioned above, the United States Bureau of Labor and Statistics has six different measurements for calculating the unemployment rate. They are called U-1, U-2, U-3 (official unemployment rate), U-4, U-5 and U-6. Each measurement tells a slightly different story, with U-1 being tightly focused on specific data, while U-6 is much more encompassing.


