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Cyberproblems
- Find the current civilian labor force, number of people unemployed, and
unemployment rate. Economy at a Glance will
help you. Can you find the current labor force participation rate? (This will
involve a bit of searching at the Economy at a Glance site.)
- Using Table A-2 of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics' "The Employment Situation News Release," find current
unemployment rates by race (white/black), gender, age (20 years and over/16 to
19 years) and Hispanic origins. What do you think explains the differences?
- Is your state a right-to-work state? The National Right to Work Legal Defense
Foundation, Inc. site can help you find the answer.
- Read about "The Right to Work Principle".
Do you agree with "The Right to Work Principle?" Why or why not?
- Read How the Government Measures Unemployment, a document made available by the BLS. What are the problems associated with measuring unemployment in a country as large as ours? Is the government's strategy reasonable to you?
- Read the Unemployment Insurance Web Page of the Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network.
The link takes you to the WNJPIN homepage. From there click on Unemployment Insurance Information. What are the basic services provided by unemployment insurance? Does your state has a similar Web page? (Let the National ITSC Web site help you.)
- Access the National ITSC Unemployment Insurance Web Site. Find the size of the labor force, number of unemployed persons, and unemployment rate last month. Find data on duration of unemployment for last month. What percentage of the unemployed had been out of a job for 15 weeks or more? 27 weeks or more?
- Search America's Job Bank.
Click on Instructions and then About this Service to learn about the
purpose
of America's Job Bank. Then, return to the home page and click on
Job Seekers and then Menu (under Search for Jobs) to find a job vacancy
in
an occupation that interests you within 25 miles of your current
location.
If well-publicized and extensively-used, what impact should America's
Job Bank have on Unemployment and Its Natural Rate? Explain.
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