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Unemployment? Underemployment? How about this metric...
Total wages paid in a week.
If someone gets fired it goes down. If someone stays employed but gets a pay cut it goes down.
If an employed person is cut from 40 hours to 35 hours it goes down.
When someone loses a $22/hr job and takes an $9/hr job it goes down.
When somebody unemployed gets a job, or someone employed gets a raise, or someone moves from part-time to full-time it goes up.
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