Unemployment has the potential to be very misleading. It is a count of people who are actively looking for work but not yet employed. It doesn't count people wh

Unemployment has the potential to be very misleading. It is a count of people who are actively looking for work but not yet employed. It doesn't count people who have dropped out of the workforce but would prefer to be working or people who are underemployed or working less hours than they'd prefer, for example.