For this assignment, you will continue with the industry you selected in Unit II. You will create a PowerPoint presentation in which you will be looking at historical, current, and forecasted measures of the unemployment rate, inflation rate, and labor force participation rate for the United States as a whole. You must utilize the Notes or Audio Narration feature of PowerPoint to explain each slide in detail.

Please address the following in your presentation.

Provide a minimum of a 3-year history of the following:

· unemployment rate in the United States,

· inflation rate in the United States, and

· labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how these historical measures impacted your selected industry.

Provide a current evaluation of the status of the following:

· unemployment rate in the United States,
· inflation rate in the United States, and
· labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how the current status of these economic indicators are impacting your selected industry.

Provide a forecast (projecting at least 3 years into the future) of the following:

· unemployment rate in the United States,
· inflation rate in the United States, and
· labor force participation rate in the United States.

Indicate how the forecast of these economic indicators will impact your selected industry if the forecast is correct.

Your PowerPoint presentation must be a minimum of 15 slides in length (including the title slide and reference slide). Please present your content using the following format.

· Slide 1: Title slide

· Slide 2: Introduction

· Slide 3: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. unemployment rate

· Slide 4: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. inflation rate

· Slide 5: A 3-year history (minimum) of the U.S. labor force participation rate

· Slide 6: How the historical measures impacted your selected industry

· Slide 7: Current status of the U.S. unemployment rate

· Slide 8: Current status of the U.S. inflation rate

· Slide 9: Current status of the U.S. labor force participation rate

· Slide 10: How the current status of the economic indicators are impacting your selected industry

· Slide 11: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. unemployment rate

· Slide 12: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. inflation rate

· Slide 13: Forecast (3-year minimum) of the U.S. labor force participation rate

· Slide 14: How the forecasts of the economic indicators are going to impact your selected industry.

· Slide 15: References

Ensure that the presentation you create is your own authentic work. Adhere to APA Style when creating citations and references for this assignment. APA formatting, however, is not necessary.

The

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics website

is helpful for finding data for this assignment.