{"id":280308,"date":"2025-11-24T08:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280308\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:45:06","slug":"us-adds-119000-jobs-in-september-but-unemployment-hits-four-year-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/280308\/","title":{"rendered":"US adds 119,000 jobs in September but unemployment hits four-year peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details\/registration\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specification: <\/p>\n<p>Some current statistics about US monetary policy and unemployment:<\/p>\n<p>The current rate of unemployment in the US is 4.4 per cent, the third lowest in the G7 behind Japan (2.56 per cent) and Germany (3.41 per cent)<\/p>\n<p>The US inflation rate of 3 per cent is close to its target rate, but the second-highest in the G7.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment is measured by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has long campaigned for the Fed to cut rates, arguing that high interest rates act as a barrier to jobs and investment. But the Federal Reserve is independent and must consider a range of factors when deciding to cut rates,<\/p>\n<p>Read the article and then answer the questions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/c6a10c68-c570-4cc5-8c22-067162f4a9f2\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US adds 119,000 jobs in September but unemployment hits four-year peak<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Define the term unemployment [2]<\/p>\n<p>Outline the current trend in US unemployment [2]<\/p>\n<p>Using an aggregate demand and supply diagram, explain the impact of the US central (Federal Reserve) decreasing its base interest rate on US unemployment [4]<\/p>\n<p>Explain\u00a0two other macroeconomic factors that the Federal Reserve might consider when deciding whether to decrease its base interest rate [4]<\/p>\n<p>Discuss the effectiveness of decreasing interest rates to reduce unemployment [15]<\/p>\n<p>Mark Johnson, <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkib.net\/economics\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">InThinking\/thinkIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-280308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}