Provide a critical assessment of the following comparative general claim:The county unemployment rate went up 40 percent during our opponent's administration, but since we took the reins, it has risen only 35 percent in the same length of time. Clearly, we have done the better job.
What will be an ideal response?
Probably not, as a matter of fact. It's wise to remember that events at the national level affect the rate of unemployment at least as much as county administration. More to the immediate point, if the number of unemployed at the beginning of the speaker's administration was the same as it was at the end of the opponent's, the latter did the better job. (Say that the number of jobless in the county was 5,000 at the beginning of the opponent's administration and 7,000 at the end of it-an increase of 40 percent. If the number of jobless increased by 35 percent during the speaker's administration, a total of 2,450 were added to the unemployment rolls during that time, whereas only 2,000 were added during the opponent's.)
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