What would a trend of increasing unemployment over an extended period indicate?

A contraction phase of the business cycle.

Even though the employment rate is NOT the best indicator of the nation's economy health anymore. A trend of increasing unemployment over an extend period of time indicates a contraction phase of the business cycle. The increase in unemployment, also, generates a decline in both aggregate demand and income.  

nuclear fission produces the atomic bomb, a weapon of mass destruction that uses power released by the splitting of atomic nuclei the fighting in iwo jima and okinawa affected the allies' pacific strategy because truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on mainland japan.

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