Recent Unemployment Rates!!

     Finding jobs and getting hired at a job was more convient back in the day. Now this is not as easy as it was and the unemployment rates in the United States are sky rocketing with days at a time. Unemployment surged from 18.9% at the end of January to 19.6% by mid Febuary. Increasing to about 10% within a couple of days! WOW! The unemployment rate went up 0.8% than it was this time lasst year.
  Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and currently seeking work but the persont is without work. The lower the unemployment rate is in the United States the better the economy grows! A higher rate of employment increases purchasing power of the economy resulting high growth rate and GDP.
   The constant changes in employment rate is caused by technical inovation which is advancment in technology and the economic cycle which are the constant changes in dynamics of supply and demand.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/146147/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-Mid-February.aspx
  

Race To The Top.

          The Race to the Top Education Reform, also known as R2T or RTTT is a $4.35 incentive program designed by the United States Department of Education to spurr prgressive reformsin state and local districts in K-12 education. In other words, the race to the top fund provides competitive grants to schools to encourage the importance of education. During The presidents State of the union speech Barack Obama mentions the "Race to the top  Reform" and basically says he wants to replace the "No Child Left Behind" with this.  

        “America will not succeed in the 21st century unless we do a far better job of educating our sons and daughters… And the race starts today.  I am issuing a challenge to our nation’s governors and school boards, principals and teachers, businesses and non-profits, parents and students: if you set and enforce rigorous and challenging standards and assessments; if you put outstanding teachers at the front of the classroom; if you turn around failing schools – your state can win a Race to the Top grant that will not only help students outcompete workers around the world, but let them fulfill their God-given potential.”

                                                                                        - President Barack Obama
                                                                                                            July 24, 2009

   This relates to not only A.P government class because of its political reasoning but also relates to my education oppurtunities as a teenager attending a public school eduation. 

    This reform gives every child and school the oppurtunity to suceed in in life and studies beyond the classroom. These grants may help schools in sso many ways such as supplies, technology, extracurricular activities etc.