The U-3 rate does not include those that drove for Uber one hour in the month. The gold standard metric is labor participation rate of white men over 20, and that's not looking good: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300028

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gruez 17 minutes ago | parent [-]

>The gold standard metric is labor participation rate of white men over 20

"gold standard"... according to whom? Economists? Internet commentators? White nationalists?

	▲	HarryHirsch 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Economists, of course - the confounder of discrimination is absent here. Recall: if something appears weird in the US, it's usually due to slavery.