Which ethnic group has the largest share of the US workforce?
What is Caucasian
100
This is NOT included in GDP and accounts for the decrease in work hours.
What is the Leisure Gap
100
The generation is known as the “technology native” generation
What is Gen Y
100
the name of the social networking site most employers now require checking before employing an applicant
What is Facebook?
100
The Housing _____ is what burst and caused a loss in trillions of US dollars
What is Bubble
200
Name two major factors that have contributed to helping women get better jobs?
What is Contraceptive pills and better education.
200
How many jobs did we create and how many were needed for growing population from May to June 2012?
We created 80,000 new jobs.
BUT we need 125,000 new jobs to be at full-employment.
200
What was considered being literate in the early 19th century
What is knowing how to read and write
200
a direct result of the advances in Communication
what Globalization
200
Social Security is broken into these two arms:
What is Retirement, and its disability program
300
Name the four generations in order.
What is Traditionalists/Veterans, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y.
300
A partnership between labor unions and environmental organizations dedicated to expanding the number and quality of jobs in the green economy.
What is the BlueGreen Alliance?
300
Name two majors that didn’t exist ten years ago.
What is 1.New Media
2.Biotechnology
3. Organic agriculture
4. Homeland security
5. E-Business/E-Marketing
6. Computer Game Design
7. Forensic accounting
8. Human Computer Interaction
9. Society and the Environment
10. Nanotechnology
300
This is the number of jobs predicted to be lost in the 21st century
What is 3 million?
300
This percent of people earning less then 30,000$ per year are worried about maintaint their lifestyles
What is 72%
400
Name three things that will occur when the baby boomer generation retires?
What is There will be a shortage of workers, higher wages, lower rate or unemployment, and taxes will be high in order to pay for pension and medicare.
400
What does STEM stand for?
Science, Technology, Engineering, Math
400
Name a job that has been the subject of automation.
What is car manufacturer (robots), number crunching (computers), ATMs (used to be bank tellers)
400
The profession used (in the powerpoint) to exemplify the impact of new machinery on high skilled jobs
What is a lawyer?
400
The fear of paying this item that comes once a month increases the fear of lowering standard of living
What is Normal Monthly Bills
500
Name three factors that lead to the dot com bubble burst
What is The 6 time interest rate increase by the Federal Reserves, Microsoft considered a monopoly, and majority of the dot coms ceased trading after burning through their venture capital.
500
What is 5 things is Obama emphasizing in his State of the Union addresses in relation to education and jobs?
1) Rewarding good teachers
2) States to keep students in school through high school (at least)
3) lower college cost by extending tuition tax credit
4) stimulate more green jobs
5) end subsidies to oil companies
500
The four skill areas that are crucial to be an asset in the work force
What are Digital Literacy, Inventive thinking, Effective Communication and High Productivity.
500
DAILY DOUBLE
Technology is a determinant of this curve
What is the Supply Curve?
500
____ and ____combined will fall at least 10 percent short of the income needed to support the same standard of living they had while working.