alt Hacker NewsThe 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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gilbetron • today at 5:21 PM
That's because there are fewer white men because white men (and women) are the ones that are returning from the Baby Boomer era. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=1T9dv&heig...
>The gold standard metric is labor participation rate of white men over 20
"gold standard"... according to whom? Economists? Internet commentators? White nationalists?