What do you think the city of Chicago's U-6 unemployment rate is? (assess)

[Girbaud King]

The "U-6" includes two groups of people that the "U-3" does not:

1. "Marginally attached workers" - people who are not actively looking for work, but who have indicated that they want a job and have looked for work (without success) sometime in the past 12 months. This class also includes "discouraged workers" who have completely given up on finding a job because they feel that they just won't find one.

2. People who are looking for full-time work but have to settle on a part-time job due to economic reasons. This means that they want full-time work, but can't find it.

Two pretty important groups of people, no?

Why should these people be ignored when assessing the true state of a specific economy's well being?

So what's your guess on the city of Chicago's U-6 rate?

Any further U-6 estimates state and nationwide would be appreciated.