America's True Unemployment Rate
This is phrased in a very deceptive way. There are lots of issues with the 'Unemployment' metric. It is indeed a deceptive metric. However, it is deliberately misleading to append 'True' to 'Unemployment Rate' with a custom definition intended to make an argument. You are stacking confusion on confusion instead of clarifying. If you want to create a different metric around a 'living wage,' then it should be defined in a way that makes that more clear.<p>There are also serious regional differences in what such a wage might be. $2000/month is enough to live comfortably with a personal car in low cost of living regions. In NYC it means you are probably stacked into a decaying apartment with many other people with no car.