Posted by Mac on Monday, June 29, 2009 at 12:56pm.
How many people are in the labor force and what is the unemployment rate?
Assuming that the population includes only those people between 16 and 64, then 200,000 are working or actively looking for a job. The unemployment rate is 20,000 / 200,000 or 10%.
http://economics.about.com/od/unemploymentrate/f/labor_force.htm
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