id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4378 Unemployment in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 18286 1759 65 For example, as of September 2017, the unemployment rate (formally defined as the "U-3" rate) in the United States was 4.2% representing 6.8 million unemployed people.[4][5] The unemployment rate was calculated by dividing the number of unemployed by the number in the civilian labor force (age 16+, non-military and not incarcerated) of approximately 159.6 million people,[6] relative to a U.S. population of approximately 326 million people.[7] The historical average unemployment rate (January 1948-September 2020) is 5.8%.[4] The government's broader U-6 unemployment rate, which includes the part-time underemployed was 8.3% in September 2017.[8][9] Both of these rates fell steadily from 2010 to 2019; the U-3 rate was below the November 2007 level that preceded the Great Recession by November 2016, while the U-6 rate did not fully recover until August 2017.[4][8] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4378.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4378.txt