Jobless picture is worse than you think: Gallup

``Widely followed pollster Gallup puts the nation's unemployment rate at an ugly 8.6 percent in August, a startling jump from the 7.8 percent the organization recorded for July. When counting the underemployed, the rate zooms to 17.7 percent, off its 2013 high of 18.2 percent. The government puts the jobless figure at 7.4 percent, and 14 percent when including the underemployed and those who have quit looking.''