Unemployment levels rise and fall with the
economy. When times are bad businesses stop hiring and often let people
go. Unemployment rises. The opposite happens as the economy picks up;
businesses become optimistic and their need for labor increases. So
what’s happening today? Why? As you search through the news for a story
about unemployment keep in mind the different types of unemployment and
use these economic terms to explain what you have select as your news
story.

IN THE NEWS:
Select a news story a Internet news organizations.

Write a 3 to 5 paragraph summary of the news story and explain how it relates to the material you learned this week.
Do not copy and paste directly from the article except for small quotes
that help explain your summary. Use quotations marks for anything that
is directly from the news story.
Include the EXACT URL that can be clicked to directly retrieve the news
story you selected at the end of your paper for citation purposes. NOTE:
This is NOT the link to the news organization. The URL must retrieve
the actual news story.
Be sure to reference all sources using APA format.

For citation guidelines, please refer to the table in the APA Style section of the syllabus.