Nearly 25% of U.S. Workers Face 'Functional Unemployment,' Analysis Finds

Approximately 25% of U.S. workers face economic hardship through inadequate employment or income instability.

For generations, the unemployment rate has served as the nation's primary measure of labor market health — a number small enough, in recent years, to suggest prosperity. But a new analysis quietly challenges that reassurance, finding that nearly one in four American workers exists in a state of functional unemployment: employed, yet unable to secure stable income, sufficient hours, or work commensurate with their abilities. The finding does not merely complicate the official statistics; it asks whether those statistics have ever truly captured the human experience of economic survival.

Nearly 25% of U.S. Workers Face 'Functional Unemployment,' Analysis Finds

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