However, economists caution that the “real unemployment rate” is much higher if you include people who’ve given up looking for a job, work part-time because they can’t find a full-time position, and who are otherwise underemployed. That rate nationally, rate in April was 7.3 percent, compared to 3.6 percent for the commonly cited unemployment rate that focuses on people currently looking for a job. The broader measure is not published for Philadelphia.