Whether the unemployment rate discussed and optimized for should be U-6, or any other particular measure, is a disagreement about opinion, not about fact. Clai

Whether the unemployment rate discussed and optimized for should be U-6, or any other particular measure, is a disagreement about opinion, not about fact. Claims that the U-1 is falsified/manipulated for political purposes, or that the "real unemployment rate" is actually much higher than even the U-6, are much more clearly false.