As was reported this morning by CNN – another 6.648M Americans are newly unemployed. My mind quickly went to, “What is the updated unemployment percentage?” As the newscast did not mention this number.

• The federal government doesn’t calculate it weekly, just monthly
• So I approximated it at 9.6%

Assumptions in the approximation:

• No one unemployed the prior week found a job
• Without seasonally adjusted numbers calculations

• Sources:
  • https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf  (yellow highlighted number)
  • https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm (blue highlighted numbers)