Agreed, I am a freelancer making six figures married and my wife hasn't worked since we were dating. So according to their definition my wife is unemployed, not making a "living wage" and so am I. This is a perfect example of why I pay little attention to the news. They or their editor must have known this was bs but decided to publish it anyway for the clicks.
Whose definition are you referring to? The official BLS unemployment statistics only include people who are actively looking for work, so they wouldn't count your wife as unemployed.
Exactly. What is currently touted as an Unemployment number should be renamed: "% of those who are seeking full-time employment but not currently full-time employed". Perhaps "Unfulfilled Job Seekers" might be a better term than "Unemployed".
The other measure should be "% of working age Households where household income is not at or above average living wage adjusted by region". Then that is a measure of income and poverty and not a measure of "who has a full time job"
When I looked at this a while ago I selected the male 25-54 years old population to remove situations like the one of your wife, schooling, and retirement.
