current us unemployment rate: 4.0%
rate from 1969: 3.5%
" ....its a whole .5 percent difference. thats literally 13088000 people unemployed today.
compared to the 6081000 people that would have been unemployed in 1969
the rate changed, but the total number of people unemployed rose a staggering 115.23% from 1969 to 2019