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BALANCED-BUDGET AMENDMENT: A proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would constrain total government spending to be less than or equal to total tax collections. Such an amendment would effectively eliminate the federal deficit, which results when the spending exceeds taxes. The logic behind such an amendment is to prevent discretionary use of fiscal policy, which is often blamed for political business cycles and the resulting problems of inflation and unemployment. It is also touted as a way to limit the size of the Federal government.
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EMPLOYMENT-POPULATION RATIO The ratio of employed persons to the total civilian noninstitutionalized population 16 years old or older. Also termed the employment rate, the employment-population ratio is used as an alternative to the unemployment rate as an indicator of the utilization of labor resources.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time going from convenience store to convenience store trying to buy either a handcrafted bird house or a weathervane with a chicken on top. Be on the lookout for telephone calls from long-lost relatives.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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Average Revenue, Autoregressive
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