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How Do Presidents Deal With Unemployment: Harmful Or Helpful?

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A minority of people will say unemployment is undesirable. In my perspective, it is how it handled that matters. So, when it comes to how presidents dealt with unemployment, I appreciate President Roosevelt Franklin on how his administration handled unemployment during his term in office. His New Deal put people to work and at the end run reduce the federal budget during the severe recession. In regards to seasonal workers, they are common in the hospitality industry here, and employees are hired to work for some period in a season. Some hotels resorts or leisure such as ski resort are busy with visitors during a particular time of the year. In winter and during summer some not fully in operation, so some workers are left unemployed for some

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