1. Unemployment TodayVS Ancient Rome By: Abby Toerner

2. Questions to ask yourself? • Who started unemployment? • What happened when unemployment began? • Why did unemployment start?

3. 5 facts • Total Who? Today: Nobody in particular started unemployment. There were many problems that led to unemployment, such as taxes. When taxes rise, incomes decrease. Ancient Rome: Again not one person started unemployment. It began with taxes, high price of education, etc. 3 facts 2 facts

4. 3 facts Total What? Today: When people were hearing that unemployment was a big issue today, they would write to congress men about the issue that they were having. Ancient Rome: When people in ancient Rome were hearing about unemployment they would normally start riots, and would write petitions to congress men explaining their problems. 1 facts 2 facts

5. 5 facts Total Why? Today: Today unemployment started because thing's are getting out sourced to other countries. Also immigration has caused some unemployment because people coming in from other countries are willing to be paid for less. Ancient Rome: The reason why unemployment started in ancient Rome was because citizens that owned land had to be in the army, and since most Roman citizens were in the army all of the jobs were left empty until the citizens got back from war. When the citizens were gone slaves would take their job, but when citizens got back they were left with not jobs because the slaves had taken them. 2 facts 3 facts

6. Solutions Solutions to solve unemployment in today and in ancient Rome would be to… • Create more jobs. • Train people so they can have various jobs and techniques to many jobs. • Create a stronger economy.

7. Firemen unemployment Problems • The business was not able to pay everybody, and basically ran out of money to pay the firemen. • No one was laid off, the union was responsible for making there own contract. • The was they laid off people would start with whoever was last hired was first fired • 144 firemen were planed to be laid off • Government paid part of salaries and taxes paid the rest of the money. • Every firemen agency is different. -High school diploma -Must take a written test and a physical test -How you score on the test - If in the military they add points to your score -If you have a college degree it adds more points. • 875 firemen in the city of Cincinnati got unemployed. • If the fire house does not have enough people in the fire house they shut it down. Thanks to Mr. Sanders for making this information reliable. Reasons to make it to get into a fire house

8. Conclusion As most of the slides represent things today and in ancient Rome about unemployment are very similar problem. Things are very much the same, and that is one of the main reasons that if people would go back in time to try to fix unemployment problem in ancient Rome, nobody would be able to because the problem is still happening today.

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