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This 8 page paper discusses various issues about unemployment, including what contributes to it, how the government responds to it, and suggestions for alleviating it. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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is difficult. This paper examines the problem of unemployment in the U.S., including the unemployment figures for the last decade, what factors contribute to unemployment, responses to the problem of
unemployment at national and local levels, and what can be done to alleviate the problem. Discussion The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides us with the annual average percentage unemployment rate
for each year from 1996 through 2006; the figures are: 1996 - 5.4; 1997 - 4.9; 1998 - 4.5; 1999 - 4.2; 2000 - 4.0; 2001 - 4.7; 2002; 5.8
- 2003 - 6.0; 2004 - 5.5; 2005 - 5.1; and 2006 - 4.6 (Average annual unemployment rate, 2007). The lower unemployment rate in the late 1990s may represent the
growth in the economy caused by the technology boom, but its probably too simplistic to say that one or two factors caused the change in rates. The issue is very
complex. Factors contributing to unemployment and the poverty that accompanies it, as noted, are hard to specify. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks five different reasons that people are unemployed:
they are "job losers"; "job leavers"; they have finished temporary jobs; they are re-entering the workforce; or they are just entering the workforce for the first time (Unemployment reasons, 2007).
A "job loser" is classified as "an unemployed person who has been involuntarily terminated or laid off from a job" (Unemployment reasons, 2007). More specifically, a so-called "job loser" is
someone "who has been permanently terminated from a job and is actively seeking employment" or someone who has been temporarily laid off but is not looking for another position since
he or she expects to be "called back to work within six months" (Unemployment reasons, 2007). A "job leaver" on the other hand has quit voluntarily to find another job,
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