More people are jobless than you think..

Bottom line is there's more unemployment than is reasonably acceptable in this nation. No one knows the true numbers.

More importantly, what are those responsible (and there are many at all social and economic levels including some individuals) doing about it regardless of the true numbers?

The true numbers are: A whole helluva lot.

They say in Australia our unemployment rate is at only 5%, which is a load of bullshit. If you only work one hour a week (rediculous as that sounds). Our government makes it blaintantly obvious on how corrupt they are, but we are over run by ignorant, lazy uneducated gullible sheeple. And we say the NewZealanders have their way with sheep. Should be the other way around. The Kiwis have more balls and brains than us skips.

You're partly right. Official numbers have us at 4.8% (last time I checked) unemployment. Which is a nonsense number. There's 95 million Americans "out of the labor force," which means "not looking for work." Of course the Department of Labor hasn't asked all 95 million of those people if they're looking for work or not and those people aren't counted in the official unemployment number. The DoL simply removed them, arbitrarily, from the eligible column to cook the numbers. Before Obama's Presidency, we had around 45 million people out of the labor force. Real unemployment is somewhere around 12 to 15%. Underemployment is around 20%.

true. cant even imagine how much the real rates where in like 2007 when the economy crashed

No, actually the government gets the unemployment rate from the number of unemployment claims. Once you have been unemployed for 6 months you are dropped from the calculation. You no longer count in the unemployment rate. You are however reflected in the labour participation rate. That tells us what percentage of working age people are in the work force. Both numbers are critical in determining the true picture of the jobless rate.

And the people who might as well be jobless bc they make pennies.

I really don't know, I have such trouble hiring and keeping people, they self implode by not showing up for work - and I race and work as fast as I can all day, every day....there is work out there...

another source is the number of workers on Unemployment Insurance but that doesn't count those that stopped looking for work

The government gets their stats from combining the state and local areas where records are kept.

and they do not count the 30% who have given up and panhandle.