Unemployment: How is it Defined and Modeled

• Read Introduction to Unemployment (8.1-8.4) from OpenStax CNX "Principles of Macroeconomics"

Exploring Unemployment More Deeply

• Read: How to Beat the Robots (New York Times)
  

Panel Discussion: A universal basic income

Could we solve poverty/unemployment by sending every citizen a monthly check? What countries have proposed or tried this and
what insights have emerged?

• Go to: www.givedirectly.org and follow the links for Basic Income
  
• The Case for Free Money (The New Yorker)

What About Those Who Have Left the Labor Force?

• Men Without Work: our quiet employment calamity by Nicholas Eberstadt (available via BMCC Library)
  
• Why men Don't Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women (New York Times)

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