In April approx. 22 million people filed for unemployment ins. In March, the labor force was  162,913,000 with employment=155,772,000 and unemployed=7,140,000. (please answer part D) A. What would April's unemployment rate be approximately? 4.38% B. If unemployment is around 4% and from Okuns law approximately for every 1% point change in unemployment, GDP falls 2%, how much has GDP dropped in % terms? 8% C. If real GDP in March was $19,221.970 billion ($19.22 trillion), what is the drop in dollar value of production? $1,537,677,600,000 D. If JDL Forcasting announced that they predict the mpc has fallen to 0.5, how much government spending will need to be injected to get back to Unemployement(natural rate of unemployement where actual and potential output are back to long-run levels)

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In April approx. 22 million people filed for unemployment ins. In March, the labor force was  162,913,000 with employment=155,772,000 and unemployed=7,140,000. (please answer part D)

A. What would April's unemployment rate be approximately? 4.38%

B. If unemployment is around 4% and from Okuns law approximately for every 1% point change in unemployment, GDP falls 2%, how much has GDP dropped in % terms? 8%

C. If real GDP in March was $19,221.970 billion ($19.22 trillion), what is the drop in dollar value of production? $1,537,677,600,000

D. If JDL Forcasting announced that they predict the mpc has fallen to 0.5, how much government spending will need to be injected to get back to Unemployement(natural rate of unemployement where actual and potential output are back to long-run levels)

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