Many Left Uncounted in Nation's Official Jobless Rate

This story was originally aired on PBS on July 2, 2009 on the Jim Lehrer News Hour.
This story covers workers that are unemployed, underemployed, and discouraged workers. It spells out how the unemployment rate, this month reported to be 9.5% (14.7 million people), could be considered higher than 15%, and as high as 20%.

According to the report, in the last year 2.5 million new applications for social security disability have been filed.

The video of the show can be viewed by following this link