2011 American Unemployment Rate?

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I'm doing a discussion and analysis paper on today's current American Unemployment rate. After 3 hours of research, I'm completely stuck. There's just too much info. What questions should I ask myself to help narrow my info down? What are the most and main important reasons for the American Unemployment rate? And how exactly do you write an Analysis Discussion essay? please help, thanx in advance.

simplicitus · Accepted Answer

Unemployment always goes up in a recession - it wouldn't be a recession if that didn't happen. So that isn't an interesting area.

The big question is why has unemployment persisted. My answer is that the government hasn't passed a big enough stimulus package.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/06/stimulus-arithmetic-wonkish-but-important/
http://worthwhile.typepad.com/worthwhile_canadian_initi/2010/06/stimulus-what-stimulus.html
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/austerity-usa-2/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/on-the-inadequacy-of-the-stimulus/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/the-death-of-the-confidence-fairy/


Classical economists say that the economy should be left to itself to recover. But, by not doing anything, we have left it to itself and it hasn't:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/06/2011-private-employment-is-2-below-2001-levels
http://innovationandgrowth.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/new-manufacturing-data-show-weaker-factory-recovery-deeper-recession/
http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/03/a-long-way-to-go.html

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2011/08/how-long-will-it-take-for-the-economy-to-recover-too-damn-long.html

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