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    institutions, they are worried by the status of unemployment in today’s society. Also, some school leavers would not like to receive a low paying job. This phenomena we call youth unemployment. Some statistics that “more than 40 percent of young people are unemployed” in spain, “more than 20 percent” in France, and “21 percent” in USA (Tapscott and Williams, 2012, p. 24) . These stats reveals the low rate of youth employment in western countries. The high unemployment is the main cause of why…

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    People who are seeking work or have been recently layoff are considered unemployed. Unemployment is one major problem in the economy, unemployment doesn't just affect the person who is getting laid off, but also their family because they won't have a high steady income. Finding a different job can be difficult, it can lead to someone feeling stressed, depressed and unuseful. If an employer wants to stay employed, they will want to become valuable to the company and if that doesn't work they will…

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    Social Ecological on Unemployment According to Algernon Austin, “former director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE) Millions of African Americans live in communities that lack access to good jobs and good schools and suffer from high crime rates. African American adults are about twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, black students lag their white peers in educational attainment and achievement, and African American communities tend to…

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    organizations and workforce solutions may not help alleviate the issue of unemployment in Brownsville. A way we could help with the issue of unemployment in Brownsville may be to lure in companies and invest in out cities and create new jobs for those jobless citizens of our beautiful brownsville. Recently there has been many companies that are investing in our city and it has greatly helped with our issue of unemployment. Our city is open to many new opportunities and creating better and well…

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    The 21st century is facing a remarkable increase in unemployment rate as millions of workers have been permanently eliminated from the economic process and many job offers have become extinct. Brynjolfsson (2011) presented the unfortunate catastrophe about the American Associations after the Great Recession between May 2007 and October 2009. In fact, companies didn’t resume employing, they hired new machines. After the sharp decline in economic activity during the late 2000s, the quality of the…

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    Review Unemployment is a person who is actively looking for employment is unable to find work. Unemployment is often used as a measure of the health of the economy (Investopedia, 2017). The measuring of unemployment rate is the number of unemployment divide by the number of people in labor force (Investopedia, 2017). Unemployment rate is given by the formula: Unemployment rate= !"#$%&’($#") *’)+& -+.’/ 0’/1# As well as the definition of unemployment is…

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    Unemployment is one of the biggest issues at hand in United State of America. Unemployment is when an individual gets fired, quits his/her job or is in the process of looking for jobs but unable to find anything. Unemployment is a common issue in any economy, even in a healthy economy there are many citizens that are unemployed but when the unemployment rate starts to increase that becomes the real issue. Unemployment occurs due to many different reasons. Now a day technology is becoming a big…

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    Statisticians determine the unemployment rate in the United States by dividing the number of people in the labor force by the number of unemployed (Rittenberg & Tregarthen, 2009, p.511). Moreover, the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts an individual as unemployed if they are currently without employment yet are seeking work (Rittenberg & Tregarthen, 2009, p.511). Combining the total number of people working with those that are unemployed reveals the number in the labor force (Rittenberg &…

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    live, but we are faced with several problems in America today. We face the challenges of unemployment, warfare, industry automation, and a huge national debt, but if we can overcome these challenges we can work towards a brighter future. If we utilize the visions that America’s most powerful young minds and our vision for America. A problem that we face in America today is unemployment. The reason why unemployment is so prevalent in America today is that America’s industries are moving overseas…

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    exposed the inability of political and financial institutions to cope, and the crisis quickly sparked a worldwide economic slump. One of the major consequences and legacy of the Great Depression was unemployment, and this essay aims to critically analyse the impact the Great Depression and unemployment had on health and well-being. To ascertain the sufficiency of welfare provision in both the US and Great Britain this paper will first look at Britain and then the US to understand the reality…

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