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Chapter 6 Problem 30

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Sharpen Your Skills: Analyze Supply and Demand Graphs Between 2000 and June of 2003, the unemployment rate in the United States rose from 4.0 percent to 6.4 percent. This 2.4 percent increase added more than 3.6 million workers to the ranks of the unemployed in this country. People who are out of work may receive unemployment compensation payments from the government. These payments, however, replace only a portion of the income they had been earning. After unemployed people pay for food, clothing, and shelter for their families, they often have little left over to purchase other goods or services. Increased unemployment in the United States between 2000 and June of 2003 contributed to a decline in demand for many household appliances. Sketch a graph similar to the one to the right to show what happened to the demand and supply for refrigerators in these years. Place arrows on your graph to show the shifts of demand, the surplus of products, and change in the equilibrium price. Label the changes that took place and explain what happened.

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Title Contemporary Economics 2 
Author William A. McEachern
ISBN 9780538444958

Sharpen Your Skills: Analyze Supply and Demand Graphs Between 2000 and June of 2003, the

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