Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a '3'. How do we keep it there?
- Written by Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne

The official employment figures say the unemployment rate for March was 4.0%, exactly the same as a month earlier.
But if you’re prepared to download the spreadsheet and work it out, you’ll find that expressed to two decimal places the rate actually fell, from 4.04% to 3.95%.
The Bureau of Statistics confirms this by...