Making Sen$e with Paul Solman
Returning Vets Face a New Battle: The Job Market
As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on the challenges veterans face returning home and searching for work in a troubled job market.
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Key Concepts
Human Capital, Labor, Labor Force, Labor Market, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate, Recession, Workers, Work
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Income for most people is determined by the market value of the productive resources they sell. What workers earn depends, primarily, on the market value of what they produce and how productive they are.
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“Powerful video that presents the dilemma that veterans face when they come back and enter the economy again. Great tool to use with students as they begin to understand the impact the job market has on the economy”
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