Real Unemployment Calculation Act

Real Unemployment Calculation Act - Treats the measure of unemployment issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (known as U5) as the official and primary measure of unemployment in the United States.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4128 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4128

To recognize a primary measure of national unemployment for purposes of 
                        the Federal Government.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2012

 Mr. Hunter (for himself, Mr. Stutzman, Mr. Kinzinger of Illinois, Mr. 
Denham, Mr. Palazzo, Mr. Rooney, Mr. Quayle, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Franks of 
Arizona, Mr. Grimm, Mr. Issa, Mr. Pitts, Mrs. Bachmann, Mrs. Blackburn, 
  Mr. Broun of Georgia, Mr. Mulvaney, Mr. Walsh of Illinois, and Mr. 
   Bilbray) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To recognize a primary measure of national unemployment for purposes of 
                        the Federal Government.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Real Unemployment Calculation Act''.

SEC. 2. PRIMARY MEASURE OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

    The measure of unemployment issued by the Bureau of Labor 
Statistics known as U5 shall be treated by the Bureau as the official 
unemployment rate and shall be considered by the Federal Government as 
the primary measure of unemployment in the United States.
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