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Despite the official U.S. unemployment rate holding steady at 4.2%, a recent report from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP) reveals a drastically different picture of the American labor force. According to LISEP’s April 2025 analysis, the “True Rate of Unemployment” (TRU) has risen to 24.3%, the third straight month it has remained above the 24% mark. This figure reflects a broader definition of unemployment that includes people unable to find full-time employment and those working in jobs that fail to provide a living wage.

Unlike the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ standard unemployment. . .