I didn't actually know this, but there are sites that do keep these figures by breaking down into separate "under-employment" types for America.

The comprehensive U-6 unemployment rate adjusts the official rate by adding marginally attached workers and workers forced to work part time for economic reasons to the officially unemployed. To find the U-6 rate the BLS takes that higher unemployment count and divides it by the official civilian labor force plus the number of marginally attached workers. (No adjustment is necessary for forced part-time workers since they are already counted in the official labor force as employed workers.)

http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archi...709miller.html

And this for the UK:

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...-s-record-jobs

The immediate effect of a fall in currency is higher costs of imports that hits GDP as companies make less profit as their raw materials increase in price. The long-term effect is increasing exports and less imports that boosts GDP.

Also UK GDP this year is better than last year
2015 Q2 0.5 Q3 0.3
2016 Q2 0.7 Q3 0.5

The majority of people on zero hour contracts want it that way. The figure I've read is 60%, not a huge majority according to some but bigger than the majority who voted for Brexit.

I will not get involved in the Brexit issue as we have not left and it will probably be three years or so before I can form an informed opinion as to whether it is beneficial, but the rounding up to 0.6% is obviously positive news. That said, the full picture is more mixed with the ONS saying that first quarter growth was actually 0.3%, not 0.4%, and they revised down estimated second quarter growth from 0.7% to 0.6%. Also, the third quarter figures were helped by "robust consumer demand", which may be hit next year with a likely rise in inflation. Also, the ONS confirmed a significant increase in the current account deficit, albeit lower than market expectations. So overall, some positive areas and others that are not so positive equal a mixed bag that lead me to be neither ecstatic nor despondent. I will leave that to the Brexit extremists from either side.

I really don't think that's true, every 20 something i speak to on ZH wishes they had more certainty. You may get some young students who don't understand that being a part-time worker is already flexible you don't need a ZH contract to have flexible hours.

ZHC is a form of worker exploitation that i thought this country had done away with decades ago, Just like our membership of the EU, it benefits a section of society at the expense of the country as a whole.

Short-term profiteering. Brexit has hardly started yet. Stop deceiving yourself.

You are a laughable parody these days.

And they have been corrected upwards. Where is Aurichie when you need him.

How is the country poorer due to Brexit?

Have no idea. Isn't it terrible that the first thing I thought of when the rounding up announcement came today was of aurichie's declaration back in Oct that he didn't believe the figures and they would be rounded down.
He's like an anti-matter icon for Brexit so I always have a spring in my step when one of his doom-laden pronouncements arrives.

He must be burrowing away trying to find "that" poll saying 90% now wanted to remain. I fear he may be gone for some time.

Face the facts. Brexit is becoming a total disaster. Society is split and the UK is changing into Little England. Prejudice and jingoism are spreading and it is not pleasant. Nothing to laugh about.

I agree, it's about 75/25% in favour of those who want leaving to be carried out.

If being in the EU is the panacea for all economic problems how is it that so many countries inside the EU are struggling badly ?

Italy, France, Netherlands Germany the right is on rise across those countries and many more, nowt to do with Brexit.
Your argument is sunk.

Amusingly the growth figure for the first quarter has been revised down from 0.4% to 0.3% and the second quarter figure down from 0.7 to 0.6% while the first post-Brexit period, quarter 3, was revised up from 0.5% to 0.6%. aurichie must be crestfallen.