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Unemployment Game Show

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    Welcome to another exciting episode of Are
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    You Unemployed?
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    [energetic music]
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    Here's your host, The Bureau of Labor
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    Statistics.
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    [audience cheering]
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    Hello, jobless Americans! The unemployment
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    figures have been released. So it's time
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    to see if you're officially unemployed!
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    Let's meet our contestants.
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    Contestant number 1. You were recently
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    laid off. Have you found a new job?
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    [sigh] No way. No one's hiring right now.
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    I haven't even bothered to look.
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    [Buzzer sound]
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    I'm sorry! You are not in the labor
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    market and therefore are not officially
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    unemployed.
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    [energetic music]
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    Contestant number 2. It says here you lost
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    your job as an auto worker. Have you found
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    a new one?
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    No, not yet. The industry isn't doing so
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    well. I need a job but I stopped looking
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    because the plants closed down.
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    [Buzzer sound]
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    Oh, I'm sorry! You're not working but
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    you're not officially unemployed either.
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    [Bell dings]
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    Contestant number 3. You were an airline
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    pilot until a recent downsizing. Have you
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    found work?
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    Ugh. Well, I'm still looking for a real
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    job, but all I could get was four hours a
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    week at a home store.
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    [Buzzer]
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    Oh no! That four hours counts as employed!
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    Contestant number 4. You lost your job as
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    a stockbroker. Have you found another?
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    No, I haven't yet but I did look in the
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    classifieds last week.
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    [music and sound of typing]
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    [loud hearbeat sound]
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    [loud celebratory music]
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    Congratulations, Contestant number 4!
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    You get to to the counted in the official
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    unemployment rate!
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    But what about the other contestants?
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    They're jobless. Why don't they count?
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    Well, if we included them,
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    that would make the number much worse!
Title:
Unemployment Game Show
Video Language:
English
Duration:
01:45

English subtitles

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