https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/sep/17/labor-stati... American policians are punishing the bureaucrats for bad news. This leads to unreliable data because they are replaced with yes-men.

What you are looking for is "U-6", a measure of unemployment that includes people employed part time who want full time work.

It is trending up but is still lower than pretty much any time since the 2008 recession: https://unemploymentdata.com/current-u6-unemployment-rate/

Millennials have spent most of their careers systematically underemployed.

I think you are looking for the U6 number..

https://dol.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2021/03/overview-o...

...what makes you think the sampling process is equipped to detect it? After all, you'd have to get off your ass and go hunt down the actual people in question, and then you might actuallyy get a politically inconvenient picture of the world.