Unemployment rate as of September 2011: 9.1%
Alternate U-6 unemployment rate as of September 2011: 16.5%
Molly's alternate unemployment rate as of September 2011: 18.4%
All numbers as of September 2011 unless otherwise indicated:
Number of people unemployed (officially) : 13,992,000
Number of people who "want a job" but haven't looked recently: 6,241,000
Number of officially discouraged workers (a subset of those who "want a job"): 1,037,000
Number of people working part-time who want full-time work: 9,270,000
Total number of people who want work or want full-time work: 29,503,000
Number of people hired in August 2011 (last month for which these figures are available):
