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UNDERCOUNTING UNEMPLOYMENT: Background, Activities and Critical Analysis
Source: MacNeil/Lehrer Productions | Type: lesson / video

Our Hidden Jobless: A lesson plan featuring in-class debate, original research and some surprising conclusions about the unemployment data, built around a video in which Chicago's Ebony Allen tries to get a job. Objectives: -to understand how the United States defines unemployment and determines unemployment numbers -to understand the difference between the official unemployment rate and the "real" rate -to recreate government reports using sample calculations -to debate the "real" rate of unemployment according to individual factors

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Full of surprises    December 2, 2010
By: Burns, B
Great job of knocking down stereotype of unemployed.
 

Our Hidden Jobless    April 17, 2012
By: DeFrancesco, B
Good explanation of differences between official unemployment and the "real" rate. Activities give students opportunities to work independently and in groups as well as work on their presentation/debating skills.