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THE POLITICS OF JOBLESSNESS: HOW A HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATE CAN DERAIL A PRESIDENT

At the time of the election, the U.S. was in a recession with unemployment starting to tick upward. Clinton was able to focus on B...

The Virgin Islands - Trouble in Paradise

world, is suffering an economic downturn. This paper explores some of the issues facing the islanders. Discussion Part of the pro...

Unemployment and Homelessness Haunt American Vets

that our veterans are adequately employed can obviously make the difference between them having a roof over their heads or not. A...

The Impact of Job Losses in the 1950s

extended families lived under the same roof and shared the costs inherent in it, American families of the 1950s were setting out t...

A Statistical Analysis of Unemployment in Philadelphia

its foremost functions is to define the relationship between sets of data. This is useful because the relationship can be quantita...

English Unemployment in the 1930s

The concepts of unemployment and unemployment insurance have been controversial regardless of the temporal and geographic setting....

How Australia is Using Fiscal Policies to Support the Economy During the 2009/10 Global Recession

at as time of recession a government is choosing to increase spending, with specific attention to certain areas. The budget includ...

The Effects of Long-Term Unemployment

persons health" (Tickner). The implication of this survey is of political interest; says Tickner: "Disparaging attacks on long ter...

Roosevelt's New Deal Policies

even when they did not grow anything; some of the comments went to the fact that children were hungry so it made no sense to subsi...

IMMIGRATION AND ITS IMPACT ON UNEMPLOYMENT

the American public, many of which are convinced that immigrants (both legal and illegal) are stealing jobs, and driving up the un...

The US Economy; 2008

annual decline rate of 0.3% (BEA, 2008). There was a contraction expected as a result of lower personal consumption expenditure, ...

Factors that Impact on the Level of Economic Prosperity

a high level of disposable income there may be caution on the part of the consumers and they will save rather than spend the money...

Economic Forecast 2009

As of December 12, 2008, some current economic indicators are as illustrated in the table below: Indicator Value Inflation % 3.66 ...

Monetary Policy And The Federal Reserve

the past two or three decades, there has been a great deal of money created from borrowing and spending. Consider the level of con...

The Use of Leading Indicators to Project Demand in the Housing Market

in 2008 of 1.2%, the recovery is expected to continue into 2009 when the GDP is expected to grow by 1.7% (Office of Economic Analy...

Macroeconomics; The Price of Oil

price was higher in real terms than it is today. It is also worth noting that the major peak seen towards the right of the chart b...

US Economy 200 - 2003

there were quarters where there was negative real growth, indicating a recession. In 2002 the growth rate increased to 2.2% and th...

Bank of England, Inflation, Unemployment, and the Rational Expectations Theory

policies: one would be estimating future inflation rates on past performance, even in the light of Bank of England policies which ...

Unemployment in the United States

A "job loser" is classified as "an unemployed person who has been involuntarily terminated or laid off from a job" (Unemployment r...

South African Politics

time as the segregationist mindset dates from the early roots of country in colonialism (Henrard 37). While racially discriminato...

Macro Economic Influences on New Car Sales 2002 - 2006

disposable income that is available, lessening the spending power. For businesses there is a duel effect, they may find that they ...

Globalization and Its Effects on the American Economy

out to be international "bad boys" seeking out poor, uneducated people to exploit beyond all belief. Rather, they seek to minimiz...

1970s and 1980s' Economy of the United Kingdom

in the Arab Israeli war of 1973. The result was, that on 17th of October 1973 King Faisal of Saudi Arabia placed an embargo on oi...

Society and Economy of Singapore

For cynics that may argue the real rate is not as healthy, due to the impact of inflation we can look at this in terms of stable...

Definitions of Inflation and Unemployment

family borrowed $10,000 at 8 percent interest in 1978, to repay $10,800 in 1979, because of inflation (i.e., prices increasing), t...

Unemployment and Social Factors

immediate impact on those who find themselves out of work. Many still face job discrimination in the workplace and in the professi...

Unemployment Rates and the Presidency

create new jobs, the Bush administration has "indelibly identified itself with the performance of the economy" (Beattie, 2003, p. ...

Comparing the United States and Australia

comparison here is made using US dollars to give an easier evaluation. Here there is a smaller economy, with a purchasing parity o...

Economy of Indonesia

costs in 2004 in Indonesia are 35 percent higher than they were in 1996 but there is no commensurate increase in productivity (Gue...

Post First World War Political Controversy Over Unemployment

If we look at the economic output of the country during this period the GDP does fall significantly with the consumption per head ...