U.S. News Unemployment Set to Improve, But Only So Much “There’s an increase of about 1 percent in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment. So it’s around 6 percent rather than 5 percent,” says William Dickens, professor of economics and social policy at Northeastern University and former senior economist for Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. This “non-accelerating rate” is known by economists as the […]