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This 3 page paper discusses several factors that have impacted the unemployment rate over the last eight years. Bibliography lists 6 sources
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a definition of unemployment and the various types of unemployment. The basic concepts involved in identifying the employed and unemployed are quite simple: "People with job are employed. "people who
are jobless, looking for jobs, and available for work are unemployed" (How the government measures unemployment, 2001). If people dont fit into either of these classifications, they are defined as
"not in the labor force" (How the government measures unemployment, 2001). What has caused the roller coaster ride? Among the factors are the 9/11 attack, the Bush administrations policies, the
war in Iraq and the weak economy. With regard to the war, one source notes that the "economic consequences of Iraq run even deeper than the squandered opportunities for vital
public investments. Spending on Iraq is also a job killer" (Pollin and Garrett-Peltier, 2008). Between 50 and 100 percent more jobs are created for every $1 billion "spent on a
combination of education, healthcare, energy conservation and infrastructure investments" than are created when that money goes to Iraq (Pollin and Garrett-Peltier, 2008). The September 11 attack also affected employment,
with experts predicting that "New York City would lose a total of 105,200 jobs in the fourth quarter of 2001 as a result of the WTC attacks" (Parrott, 2002). In
addition, the Bush administration has done nothing to stop companies from sending jobs offshore, exacerbating the problem. Was the rise in unemployment predictable? The U.S. economy was already weak and
laying off employees when the attacks came. "During the first eight months of 2001, companies had announced their intention to lay off a record high of more than one million
employees. The number of workers separated from payrolls as a result of large-scale layoffs that actually occurred also climbed markedly in the months leading up to September" (Makinen, 2002, p.
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