According to Karp (42) inflation and unemployment rates are indicators of how healthy an economy is. Inflation can measure the prices or value of the dollar, whether it rises or falls. Unemployment measures joblessness and it is said that employment (or unemployment) rates are the best way to tell if an economy is doing well.
Recent studies showed that the number of unemployed persons in the United States have reached up to 14.8 million. This was from a recent study, just last month, September 2010. It shows that the unemployment rate is at 9.6%, a 3.5% rise from September 2008, where ...
