The graph below shows the unemployment rates in the US and Japan between March 1993 and March 1999

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rates in the

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and

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from

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1993 to

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1999. As an

overall

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trend, the

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succeeded to decrease its

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rate

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over

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time

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the scenario was completely

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in

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despite its initial ignorable

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of

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. As can be seen from the given illustration, the

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rate

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in the

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was just over 7% in

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1993

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it was less than 2.5% in

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.

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,

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rate

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kept on decreasing in the

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it went up in

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. In two years, the percentage of jobless Americans fall to just below 5.5%

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it increased in

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and stood at 3.0% at the same time. The opposite trend of the line graph depicts that

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unemployment

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rate

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in the

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gradually declined

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increased

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in the case of

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. The rates of joblessness in these two countries intersected between

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1998 and

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1999 when the

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rate

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in both countries was just about 4.5%.

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of 1998, the percentage of

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among

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Americans became less than that of

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. The data

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that jobless people’s percentage in the

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was just above 4.0 in 1999

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this

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rate

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in

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reached

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over 4.5% which was more than double

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the initial

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of their

unemployment

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.