Why does the government measure unemployment through the Current Population Survey?
a. The government needs to know how many people will apply for unemploymentcompensation benefits
b. The government needs to know how many people should pay income tax.
c. Private employers do not care about unemployment, and so no private-sector firm would collect unemployment data.
d. The level of unemployment is an indicator of the overall health of the economy.
e. Unemployment is too rare an event to be measured by the census.
d
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a. This focus makes conclusions about Black fatherhood that is more to do with class experience, thus skewing out perception of the racial experience of Black fathers and families. b. This focus has shown a dramatic increase in the number of nonresidential fathers and single-mother Black home to the point that the research may be impacting individuals’ actions. c. This focus has meant that White low-income fathers have been ignored. d. This research has not adequately examined this population.