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    inflation, unemployment and economic growth are the big macroeconomic issues of our time. In this essay we focus on inflation and unemployment. Unemployment occurs when a person who is actively searching for employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy. The most frequently cited measure of unemployment is the unemployment rate. This is the number of unemployed persons divided by the number of people in the labor force (Unemployment, INVESTOPEDIA

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    people then the issue becomes a public issue. Public issues occur when values of a community or population are felt to be threatened (Mills, 1970). We can see public and private troubles occurring due to a number of different factors, including unemployment, marriage and war time. Marriage can be both a public and private trouble. The personal conflict between couples is a private trouble as it is only felt by themselves (Mills, 1970). However, if the marriage results in divorce and there is a large

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    spontaneously, which could solve the unemployment, recession and a series of macroeconomic issues. Keynesian economists believe that changes in the money supply will lead to changes in effective demand that will changes in the total economy. For economic cycle fluctuation, Keynesian economists believe that is a disequilibrium phenomenon. In 1960s, Keynesian economists appealed to the Phillips curve, which means monetary or fiscal policy will lead to lower unemployment rate and cause higher inflation

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    However, welfare programs seem to have spiked the unemployment percentage and increased expenditure on social welfare programs at expeditious rates. Although supporters believe that welfare helps unemployed workers and stimulates the economy, welfare programs cause people to become dependent on the government and is killing our economy. There have been many debates on whether extended unemployment

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    Big businesses would try to lower their expenses by stop hiring or even cut the personal, which we saw previously with unemployment. Furthermore, businesses would cut costs by stop buying new equipment or eliminate advertisings which eventually would affect big and small companies involved as well. And that is how the cycle begins. Other problem companies and industries face

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    In America there are still several parts of our society that remain racially unequal including, the workforce, the wealth gap between minorities and whites, as well as incarceration rates and police behavior. The unemployment rates in America are relatively high and because of how hard it is to get a job, the employers prefer to hire someone that they feel more comfortable with, which typically aren’t minorities. The wealth gap between minorities and whites is continuing to grow as the years move

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    decreasing from 2.9% to 1.9% by 2020. This is a problem because the higher the percentage increase, the better the economy is in the long run. The unemployment rate is currently 4.1%. Currently, the unemployment rate is in a good position because it is below the natural rate of unemployment, which is 5.0%. The data states that the median unemployment rate for 2017 is 4.3, and is projected to slightly decrease to 4.2% by 2019. The median PCE Inflation rate for 2017 is 1.6% and is expected to increase

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    This can influence how we are compensated and it can halt extra work triggering added unemployment. The Undesirable temporary connection between Price increases and Unemployment. The inflation is calculated along the perpendicular axis, and the unemployment percentage is calculated along the plane axis. This can disturb both the unemployment percentage or the price increases, it can disturb the splurging and the economy. It will partake in temporary impacts in anticipation

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    I. Introduction Unemployment is characterized by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as individuals who don 't have an occupation, have effectively searched for work in the previous four weeks, and are presently accessible for work. Additionally, individuals who were briefly laid off and are holding up to be gotten back to that occupation are incorporated into the unemployment measurements. The individuals who have not searched for work inside of the previous four weeks are not just no more considered

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    Objective Strain Theory

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    A. Thesis Statement The over mechanization of unskilled labor jobs may lead to an increase in crime rates. Is it possible to automate jobs to the point where a human element is no longer needed, and thus leaves a large portion of people unemployed? B. Theory Objective strain is a type of stressor that is generally disliked by most people (Agnew, 1992). Subjective strain is a type of stressor the is disliked by the individual person(s) who is experiencing it (Agnew, 1992). Merton’s strain theory

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