Suppose that the U.S. adult population is 224 million, the number employed is 156 million, and the

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Suppose that the U.S. adult population is 224 million, the number employed is 156 million, and the number unemployed is 8 million.
a. What is the unemployment rate?
b. Suppose that there is a difference of 60 million between the adult population and the combined total of people who are employed and unemployed. How do we classify these 60 million people? Based on these figures, what is the U.S. labor force participation rate?
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Economics Today

ISBN: 978-0132554619

16th edition

Authors: Roger LeRoy Miller

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