Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Join Professor Ariel Slonim as she walks you through the classroom slides of Day 1: " Calculating Unemployment" from MRU's free "Labor Force & Unemployment" unit plan. Get the unit plan here: learn.mru.org/lesson-plans/labor-force-unemployment-unit

Learning Objectives:
- Define and calculate the Labor Force Participation Rate.
- Define and calculate the Unemployment Rate.
- Interpret fluctuations in the unemployment rate as a business cycle indicator.
- Discuss underemployment and how different measures of unemployment address underemployment and discouraged workers.