BUS202 PRINCIPLES OF MACRO ECONOMICS Tow Pages Essay

BUS 202

Evaluate the following contemporary problem from a Social Science (Macroeconomics) perspective:

Many Americans are currently unemployed. But the Labor Force Participation of men has been on a down trend since the 1950s and recently was aggravated by the Great Recession and its aftermath.

Is this a continuing problem for the economy and for the future standard of living of the American people?

Should the Government do something to reverse this trend?

If so, what might that be?

Address these important questions using the information your textbook provides, particularly page 197-198, and the instructor-provided handout.

To deal with this issue please compose an essay of no more than one typed/keyboarded page (double spaced).

Draw your information for this essay ONLY from the textbook and the above mentioned handout.

Submit two copies of this essay no later than the last class period.

Write your name on one copy and your ID # on the other copy.

Be sure your essay has:

A title

An introduction

Several developmental paragraphs

A conclusion (the conclusion should refer back to the introduction)

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