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Unemployment

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Salman Khan examines the numbers of unemployed individuals and the various categories that are sometimes included and sometimes excluded. There is a wide spread between the U3 and U6 numbers, which indicates the number of disenchanted workers. This will effectively demonstrate some math concepts that are utilized by the media, and students will be interested in discovering how data can be skewed.

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