Yeah, but you can't compare the Great Depression numbers directly. The U-3 this appears to be using for everything since July '74 is not comparable to the old pre-war estimate methods. It's worse than comparing season and non-seasonal. I don't know about '47 but it's not important since that isn't graphed.
(All that said, I don't think the U-6 line is the right number either, tho' a lot of people say it's closest, but I'm pretty sure part-time work in the Depression would've counted. Maybe the U-5. But to counter that, you have the problem that women mostly weren't counted in the GD, which throws everything off yet again.)
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(All that said, I don't think the U-6 line is the right number either, tho' a lot of people say it's closest, but I'm pretty sure part-time work in the Depression would've counted. Maybe the U-5. But to counter that, you have the problem that women mostly weren't counted in the GD, which throws everything off yet again.)