Well the issue is that there isn't one metric. There's unemployed and seeking work, unemployed and not seeking work, under-employed, and so on Not to mention

Well the issue is that there isn't one metric. There's unemployed and seeking work, unemployed and not seeking work, under-employed, and so on Not to mention the composite figures derived from these. Employment Reports list all of these, it's just people want to consume short sound bites, not complex social and statistical topics.