Policy Basic: Maine’s Unemployment Rate, More than Meets the Eye

“. . . despite an apparently-low official unemployment rate, there are still thousands of Mainers in jobs that don’t offer the hours they need and thousands more who have stopped looking for work due in part to limited job availability. For Maine workers, broader measures of unemployment make it clear that the state’s recovery from the Great Recession is far from complete.”

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