Unemployment -- Assessment

Answer the following questions:
1. Find the unemployment rate for your own age group, your gender, and your race or ethnicity at the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. You can find this data at www.bls.gov. Once you have accessed the site, find national employment and access the employment situation summary. Compare each rate with the US overall unemployment rate. Using the types of unemployment that you have learned, explain why each unemployment rate differs from the overall unemployment rate.

2. What are the employment prospects in your chosen profession (or one that you might consider)? Find out at www.bls.gov/oco/ocoiab.htm. Look at the employment outlook. What factors will create jobs (or decrease the number of jobs) in this field?

3. To get a more vivid image of the Great Depression (the worse unemployment problem in the history of the United States) go to the photo collection of the Farm Security Administration at memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html

4. Check out unemployment benefits at www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov