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Exercise and reference answers

Questions

1. Answer

   2007

   Question

   Year the Great Recession began (December)

2. Answer

   2009

   Question

   Year the Great Recession ended (June)

3. Answer

   10

   Question

   Peak unemployment rate in percent, October 2009

4. Answer

   25

   Question

   Unemployment rate in percent reached in the Great Depression, almost

5. Answer

   1940

   Question

   Year the Current Population Survey began

6. Answer

   4

   Question

   Weeks of active job search needed to count as unemployed

Instructions

Type the number only.

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