As MLK noted, if a country stops counting its unemployed, it forgets them

Three weeks before he was killed, Martin Luther King Jr. stood up in a high school gym in Michigan and argued with a number. It was March of 1968. The government said unemployment in the Black community was 8.8%. King said it was almost twice that. Not because anybody was cooking the books. The country felt good about jobs that spring. The national unemployment rate was 3.6%, near the lowest since the Korean War. Washington D.C. called that full employment. Columnists…