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Not the person you were replying to, but I'll take one for the team and admit that I don't. If you had a link you could share explaining such, I would genuinely appreciate it.

Here's a good link: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm

My understanding is that u3 is what is typically reported, but that u6 is a more full picture (it includes people who are working age but discouraged and withdrawn from the workforce).

Let's say the economy is your Github repo. And unemployment is open issues. But there are too many open issues so you set up a bot to automatically close stale issues. So if you ignore something long enough, it goes away. Nice.

U3 (the official unemployment rate) excludes people who have been unemployed too long, that is "stale" or "discouraged workers".

What are the different unemployment rates, and how do they work?

Are you referring to [this][1]? If so, which notion(s) of unemployment do you think are meant in the article?

[1]: https://www.bls.gov/cps/definitions.htm

If the Department of Labor report the article is referring to is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly Employment Situation Summary, then unemployed doesn’t include gig workers (and it probably should).