Economic Growth, Unemployment
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Today we finished talked about economic growth and went over both convergence and how growth and debt are related. We then moved on to unemployment. We defined unemployment, talked about some basic unemployment facts, whether or not unemployment is an accurate measure, why unemployment exists, and how government policy can affect unemployment.
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