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1. 1.What do you think is the biggest contributor to unemployment in the U.S. today?

2. What services do you provide that helps people become employed?

3. About how many people come to your company for employed help each year?

4. What other services do you provide that helps the unemployed?


 * 1) One of the biggest issues that caused unemployment was slavery, because it was taking away jobs from paid workers. That is why so many young men joined the military.
 * 2) Unemployment was one of the big reasons that the empire fell
 * 3) In the later years of the empire huge amounts of grain was needed to feed about 100,00 people
 * 4) The people of Rome were not able to get food because a lot of the farmers became unemployed, so they did not have anyone to make their food
 * 5) When the wealthy farmers hired slave labor which made cheap goods and many farmers could not compete with the low cost goods.
 * 6) Rome was also, if not growing, importing most of their goods
 * 7) The Empire made the farmers donate most of their grain to him for the military that he needed to provide food for
 * 8) began with taxes, high price of education
 * 9) When the people of Rome heard about unemployment they usually would go on a riot

10. They would also write petitions hoping that they would stop unemploying people

11. If you owned land you had to be in the army, and since most of the roman citizens were in the army a lot of the jobs spots were left open, while the citizens were gone slaves were taking their places which was cheaper and easier for the land owner, but when the citizens came back they were not able to get their jobs back because the slaves were cheaper and easier causing a lot of the roman citizens unemployed

12.They could create more jobs for the citizens to fill up

abby, toerner. //us unemployment compared to ancient roman unemployment//. cincinnati ohio: 2-21-2011.

// reasons why the empire fell //. 2008.

// reasons why the empire fell //. 2-02-2012..

QUESTIONS!


 * 1) When did unemployment start to really effect the U.S?
 * 2) Why did the taxe rates go up, if they knew that the people that they were laying off wouldn’t be able to afford and pay for them?


 * 1) How many people are unemployed?


 * 1) What is the main job to get laid off in?


 * 1) How did the homeless rate increase after they so many people became unemployed?

The unemployment rate in U.S is 8.3

When the taxes rise incomes decrease, this was a big problem with unemployment

Things are getting out sourced from other countries

Immigration because letting people come in from other countries allow them to be paid less

People would write to congress men about the problem that they were having

unemployment is much higher today than any other country

The U.S’s unemployment in 2011 is higher than any other year

The unemployment rate in the United States fell to 8.3 percent in January of 2012, the lowest since February 2009. From 1948 until 2010 the United States' Unemployment Rate averaged 5.70 percent reaching an historical high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953. The labor force is defined as the number of people employed plus the number unemployed but seeking work. The non labor force includes those who are not looking for work, those who are institutionalized and those serving in the military. This page includes: United States Unemployment Rate chart, historical data and news.
 * United States Unemployment Rate **

SOLUTIONS:


 * They could create more jobs
 * They could lower taxes
 * They could not take all of the farmers goods, so that the citizens would actually have some
 * You could have an unemployment office, in which the people are experts on helping to find people jobs

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Hello Katie - I'd be thrilled to help you. Ms. Place mentioned your project to me and I think it's an awesome project. So, here goes: 1. I think that the strongest contributor to unemployment in the United States today is a combination of: uncertainty in regulatory and tax law in the US; the overwhelming impact of the European economic crisis; the mounting debt crisis in the US; the immense burden of entitlement programs emerging with the aging of the Baby Boomers; and the continued slow housing market in the US as a sustained fall-out of the effect of the sub-prime mortgage crisis. · CEO’s of most companies in the US do not have clarity on what the corporate and individual tax rates will be and are thus unable to forecast their future cash flows with any degree of certainty. · Government regulations are way too intense and this produces a climate of uncertain planning also: o Obama-Care o Environmental restrictions (e.g., Keystone XL Pipeline) o Energy emissions o Light Bulbs (just for example) o MPG in automobiles by 2025 o Drilling restrictions for oil exploration and new drilling. · High corporate tax rates and the difficulty in bringing cash from foreign countries back to the US without heavy taxation · Businesses are reticent (afraid) to invest because of the risk of economic collapse in Europe…already evident in Greece, Spain, Portugal. · With a $16 trillion debt, there is mounting uncertainty about the ability of the US Government to service its debt interest expense let alone to continue to borrow more money with possible reductions in US Credit Ratings. · The explosion of Health and Retirement costs, Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, will place enormous burden on companies moving forward….how will companies pay for these incremental expenses? · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Banks are still unwilling to lend credit and mortgages to companies/individuals because of the bath they took in 2008 with the crash of the sub-prime mortgage industry. People/Companies cannot get money to grow their businesses. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">2. Our company, Midwest Financial Staffing, provides services to both companies looking for specific types of employees and individuals looking for specific types of work. We help companies find people. But more importantly, we help individuals better understand how to present their talents and experiences to companies, how to better interview, how to write better resumes, and how to negotiate salary. In the end, we do a very good job of matching individuals with job opportunities in the market. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">3. We interview at our office as many as 12 – to- 15 people per day, so averagely 50 people per week. So that adds up to about 2,500 NEW people per year. In addition to that, we have about 10,000 people in our employee database with whom we stay in fairly regular contact. Now, of that 2,500 NEW people we meet each year, we find jobs for about 200 people per year, so that’s about 1 in every 10 people or so. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">4. Good question. We provide resume writing; interview coaching; skills identification; job search; salary negotiation; networking with individuals all across our database (introducing people to one another); and so on. But also, we serve as “career coaches” to help people best understand how their career might develop over time and to make the best academic and professional choices to achieve their respective individual choices. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Katie – my phone numbers are shown below. I encourage you to call me to discuss anything with regard to your project. Please do not hesitate to do so, especially if you need MORE information here. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Congratulations in advance on the A+ you will earn on your project – I am confident in your success! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Best regards,