how to reply to this statement The problems the Bureau of Labor and Statistics faces in measuring the unemployment are. The difficulty in capturing the underemployment rate, the challenge of accounting for those working in the informal economy, and the exclusion of discouraged workers from the unemployment statistics. On top of that, the consumer price index (CPI) shows an imperfect measurement of the living cost due to the instability needed to account for consumer pattern changes, the quality of goods and services, and regional price variation