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    unavoidable in the process of long-term economic growth. As long-term economic growth happens by improving economies efficiency, this is generally achieved by supply side policies. For this reason determinants would include, policies to reduce unemployment, entrepreneurial spirit, technology, education and training and investment. It is important to understand how to improve long-term economic growth in order to deal with and adjust when a recession hits. Changes in investors can often lead to a

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    According to Investopedia, “Unemployment is a phenomenon that occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment, but is unable to find work.” With the given definition, imagine getting paid three dollars an hour working at a bar, while seeing someone else doing the exact same job getting paid ten dollars an hour. In Italy, this is a very common problem being based on the location of the job. For example, Giuliana Stavolo, a southern Italian native, finds herself one of the lucky ones

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    Recession in Greece

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    1.0 Introduction Greece’s unemployment rate has hit another highest record in May 2013, which is 27.6%. Greece continues to suffer jobless labour market from the deep recession. Among all the labour force aged 16-24, the rate is 64.9% as the Greece sees the sixth year of recession. Jobs of any kind are scarce in today’s Greece. Deep recession have swept away a quarter of the Greece’s GDP. Greece, the country of 11 million people has lost more than a million jobs as business shut down or lay off

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    Economic Critique

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    a recession, and the unemployment rate is at an all-time high. The unemployment rate consists of people not only out of work but also those who can work and are actively looking for work (Colander, 2010). Unemployment also means there are more people out of work than there are jobs available (Colander, 2010). Unemployment has extremely negative effects on many people and businesses. The government budgets funds for unemployment benefits and when the unemployment rate rises, the government

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    running through everyone’s minds as to why Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota have the lowest unemployment rates in the United States. There are different aspects to why the economy goes up and down in the job field. Utah, Vermont, Minnesota, Idaho, Iowa, and New Hampshire are a little bit higher in unemployment rates than all the others listed. There is a reason that North Dakota’s unemployment rate is so low. But there has recently been a slight increase and that’s because the oil patch drilling

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    is a highly contentious one. Members of the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) and academic economists disagree about what constitutes appropriate future macroeconomic policy for the Unites States. In the past, the Fed had been able to raise rates when the unemployment rate was under 5% and inflation was at a target of 2%. Enigmatically, since the Great Recession and despite a strengthening economy, year-over-year total inflation since 2008 has averaged only 1.4%—as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures

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    The Great Depression was an economic plunge that consumed the world creating poverty, unemployment and other hardships to almost everyone who lived through the 1930’s. One controversial question that can be asked in Canada is if the government had an adequate response to the hardships that were faced at that time. Based on the points that are provided in my research it is clear that the government responses were not adequate and several hardships could have been prevented if the government had produced

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    Great Depression Dbq

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    time. The unemployment time was the worst. Not having a healthy economy was the major cause for the unemployment because it even occurred it to happen. The reason for that was the economy was just too low that and people lost their jobs. I think that the unemployment could have been avoided because

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    then give my reasoning for selecting each problem and discuss my ideas for correcting these problems. I believe that America is facing a great deal of problems at this time; however, the top four issues in my opinion are economic instability, unemployment, gun control and limitations on Constitutional rights. I selected my top four based upon how the issue impacts American citizens and their families. I also selected things that I

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    Employee Welfare Programs

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    provide basic information regarding three employee welfare programs signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. The programs included in this research paper are the social security program, the workers’ compensation program, and the unemployment compensation program instituted in the United States. The history surrounding these unique programs as well as provisions and concepts involving all three programs will be discussed. The research will include brief instructions on how to file a

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