Classifying Discouraged Workers as Unemployed Would

question 11

Multiple Choice

Classifying discouraged workers as unemployed would

• A) increase the unemployment rate.
• B) decrease the unemployment rate.
• C) not change the unemployment rate.
• D) have an indeterminate impact on the unemployment rate.

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