Latest U.S. weekly jobless claims: 255,000
Last time these claims were this low: November, 1973
Latest U.S. figure for real non-supervisory wage: $9.01 per hour
First time this wage hit that level: December, 1971
(Sources: “U.S. jobless claims drop to 41-1.2 year low,” by Lucia Mutikani, Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/07/23/us-jobless-idUSKCN0PX1EO20150723 and calculated from “Average Hourly Earnings of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees, 1982-84 Dollars,” Series Id: CES0500000032, Seasonally Adjusted, Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment Statistics survey (National), Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject, Data Tools, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, http://data.bls.gov/pdq/SurveyOutputServlet)
RealityChek 
If they were to count the long term unemployed, many of them former STEM workers, unemployment would be so high that they can’t deny it.
after studying it for nearly a decade, I believe it is closer to the blue line on this chart.
http://www.shadowstats.com/imgs/sgs-emp.gif?hl=ad&t=1435845509