You are hired as a sociological consultant by a policy expert group that is interested in reducing rates of unemployment among U.S. workers. Using your sociological perspective of social problems, what would you most likely recommend to the experts as they think about designing policies to address this problem?

A) Programs targeted at high-tech job skills training for people in urban communities would have the biggest impact.
B) A multi-pronged approach to this problem including free or lost-cost job training/education, increased unemployment benefits, corporate incentives, and efforts to stimulate economic growth will have the biggest impact.
C) Providing relocation stipends for people in rural communities, where employers are more scarce, would have the biggest impact.
D) Disincentivizing off-shore production by taxing corporations would have the biggest impact.


B) A multi-pronged approach to this problem including free or lost-cost job training/education, increased unemployment benefits, corporate incentives, and efforts to stimulate economic growth will have the biggest impact.

Sociology

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What will be an ideal response?

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