One of the Shortcomings of the Government's Method of Measuring

question 31

Multiple Choice

One of the shortcomings of the government's method of measuring unemployment tends to make the official unemployment rate an overestimate of the unemployment problem:

• A)people working less than twenty hours a week are counted as unemployed.
• B)people seeking part-time jobs are counted as fully unemployed.
• C)people who have given up looking for work are counted as fully unemployed.
• D)"discouraged workers" aren't counted as unemployed.

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