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 2: " What Causes 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 structural, frictional, and cyclical unemployment.
- Classify workers based on unemployment type.
- Define the natural rate of unemployment.
- Discuss the unemployment rate as a business cycle indicator.