alt Hacker News> you're gonna have to try hard to get a Home Depot job
Things are definitely weird because the current unemployment rate isn't far off 50 year lows: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
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runarberg • yesterday at 10:56 PM
That job exist does not equate that good jobs exist. Some jobs are far away requiring you to commute for two hours (you can’t because you have a family) or move (you can‘t because you can‘t afford the move), most are low paying to the extent that they are simply not even worth your time. Many are stressful (to the extent you physically can‘t do them), etc. etc.
Anyway, this has been explained a lot in the literature, unemployment rates are a poor measure of the difficulty of finding a job.
I'm not sure if one can trust any numbers posted by the federal government.