From all of this, it is clear that the U-6 measure is a lot more reliable than the U-3, the one that is most widely reported.
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Once you factor in the U-6 measure of unemployment, which includes discouraged workers and part-time workers seeking full time employment, the real unemployment rate is at a sky high 14.9%.
In addition, the official unemployment rate in February was 8.3%, down from 9.1% in August while the U-6 measure of unemployment, which includes frustrated job seekers and those who are being forced to work part time has fallen to a still high 14.9%, compared to 16.2% in August.
House Democrats call their measure the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans Health and Iraq Accountability Act.
The University of Michigan measure of U.S. consumer confidence sank to a 2-year low of 74.5, in December, from 76.1, the previous month.
Chuck Hagel and Olympia Snowe added their names as co-sponsors of a Democratic measure for U.S. forces to pull out of Iraq by April.
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Another measure of U.S. success will be to avoid such linkages.
In Poland, food accounts for 24% of consumer price calculations and energy contributes 15%, compared with food and energy representing 8% and 9% in the U.S. measure of consumer prices.
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By that measure, the U.S. still has some time before the debt bomb explodes.
The U-6, a measure that includes those marginally attached to the workforce, dipped to 16.7% from 17%.
The seven different indexes measure everything from U.S. and European equities to currencies, Treasury markets and corporate credit.
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Using energy intensity as a measure, the U.S. is using slightly more than 9, 000 BTUs per dollar of GDP.
In upholding the trial-court ruling, the Ninth Circuit in February said the measure violated the U.S. Constitution by withdrawing from gays and lesbians a right that they previously enjoyed.
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In June, 2007, a measure authorizing the U.S. Department of Labor to spend a hundred and twenty-five million dollars to train workers for green jobs was introduced in the House.
U. did not discuss the measure with Russia first, on account the oligarchs are big account holders in Cyprus.
One measure in which the U.S. has unquestionably reached the big-time is in the salary of its national team coach, Jurgen Klinsmann.
The measure would double tax U.S.-based multinationals on income earned abroad.
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It's an approach that is being implemented by companies such as clothing and electronics retailers GAP and Best Buy in the U.S., who measure results as opposed to hours worked.
In February 2012 the Intuit Small Business Employment Index, a measure of employment at U.S. companies with fewer than 20 employees, stood at 95 percent of its January 2007 level.
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In evaluating the QDR force structure, we were hampered by the lack of a clearly articulated force-planning construct that the military services and Congress can use to measure the adequacy of U.S. forces.
And 65% of its users are outside the U.S. As a measure of how much its users like the product Rockmelt says the average user spends 6.5 hours per day using the product.
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Among the proposed changes in both bills is a measure to convert the U.S. to a "first-to-file" system for granting patents (which most other countries use) rather than the "first-to-invent" system currently in place.
In spite of renewed calls for regulatory measures, OSHA's Mr. Barab said it will be years before the agency settles on a new combustible-dust standard, a key regulatory measure recommended by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a separate government agency.
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Nor does there appear to be any progress in settling a dispute with Mexico, which imposed tariffs on the U.S. after the administration signed a measure favored by Democrats canceling a pilot program that allowed Mexican trucks to carry cargo on U.S. roads.
Besides 100 interceptor missiles at a single site in Alaska, the Clinton Administration plan calls for a potential second site in North Dakota, with up to 150 more interceptors, as well as the option of supplementing both sites with ship-based defenses that could also provide some measure of defense for U.S. allies.
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Abraham got a measure of vindication when the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a complaint against Hyundai.
In 2007, the U.S. Congress approved a measure to authorize states to take divestment action on companies with ties to Sudan.
Since the number of other works any paper can cite is limited, this is a good measure of the quality of U.S. research.
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