The other unemployment rate

This is from CNN and maybe you've read it, but in case not, I'll post it here. I think it illustrates pretty well how facts and figures such as the "unemployment rate" can be skewed by political parties for their own purposes.

"About 5% of the adult population is "unemployed" in the technical sense of the word, meaning they don't have jobs but they looked for one in the last four weeks. Another 3% want a job but haven't search for one for at least a month.

That leaves about 82 million people who simply don't want a job. About 60% of them are either over age 65 or under age 25. Presumably, many are retirees or full-time students.  But the rest are in their prime working years, between ages 25 and 65. Some could be stay-at-home parents, or people who can't work due to health problems. The wealthy day trader who lives off his investments is in this category too."  As are others.