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Marco Rubio: “The unemployment rate is a measure of the percentage of…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 16:27

Okay, your blood work came back and it looks good. All right, but what about that massive growth on the chest X ray still be addressed? The unemployment rate is a measure of the percentage of people actively looking for work that cannot find it. It does not measure how many people are not looking for work at all. It does not measure that, and it does not measure the type of work that are being created. Is it steady work? Is it work that pays enough to be able to afford certain things? (16:27–16:36)

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Asserts that the unemployment rate does not account for people not looking for work.

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