“’When you are a partial employee, you can’t survive,’ he said.

California’s unemployment rate reached a high of 16.3% in May 2020, and the state recovered 63.5% of the unemployment rate lost due to the pandemic. However, Gonzales’ struggle to find a good job is not reflected in standard California employment measurements, causing him to be functionally unemployed.

‘It’s worth considering how these numbers are collected and reported, because they are a way of making policy choices,’ said Alyssa Anderson, senior policy analyst at the California Budget Policy Center. It affects and provides support to families and households.’

LISEP researchers also found that women’s functional unemployment rate in September 2021 was about 9% higher than that of men.”