Fed: Underemployment is worse than official stats suggest

Published May 16, 2016 9:29pm ET



Underemployment in the U.S. is worse than the most commonly cited figures suggest, a new analysis published by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors concludes.

Researchers at the central bank published a note Monday saying that the Bureau of Labor Statistics figures on the number of workers forced into part-time work “substantially underestimates underemployment along the dimension of hours people are actually working.”

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