The reported unemployment rate is hanging somewhere around 5%. But when you address the underemployed, marginally attached, part-time, and discouraged workers who have given up all together the number is really around 22%. Not to mention everyone that has substandard health insurance, no retirement benefits, or are working for poverty-level wages.
As we enjoy our labor day we need to assess the strong labor and union movements beginning in the 19th century that fought for basic health and safety standards at work, against child labor, and for the 8 hour work day. Also to ask if the economic recovery has been one for the workers or one for the 1%.
References
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-real-unemployment-rate-3306198
https://www.nationaleconomicseditorial.com/2017/06/26/real-unemployment-rate/