This is old, but the pertinent info doesn't have to be current.

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/05/29/3-lies-about-jobs-and-the-unemployment-rate

As I posted elsewhere, there are far more people out of work than there are jobs available, and that is not going to change.

I don't know about you, but I never hear anyone talk about Zero Population Growth anymore.  

You can't blame drugs on why I couldn't get a job at a popular nation-wide sandwich shop that's been in the news lately.  Trying to apply in person is where I first learned about Snag-A-Job.

First, take a 25 minute personality quiz (for Snag-A-Job), not your prospective employer) for a job I already know inside-out. 

Then go to the prospective employer's site and take a similar test.  

Then fill out the employer's application, and wait.

Then, when you see the same job appear a couple of weeks later (the employer indicates that it is the same opening, meaning something didn't go well.