--- title: Unemployment: when jobs are lost — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Unemployment: when jobs are lost», a lesson of the money course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Unemployment means not having a paid job when you want one; it can happen to anyone, often through no fault of their own, when a factory cl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/) / Unemployment: when jobs are lost # Unemployment: when jobs are lost Lesson 35 of the money course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/0/) — Unemployment means not having a paid job when you want one; it can happen to anyone, often through no fault of their own, when a factory closes, a shop shuts or times get hard. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/1/) — Picture the news saying a big factory is closing and 500 people will lose their jobs: if each earned £500 a week, the town loses 500 × £500 = £250,000 of spending every week, so local shops and cafés suffer too. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/2/) — The economy goes up and down like a slow wave: in a boom jobs are easy to find, and in a recession the country makes and spends less for a while and jobs get scarcer. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/3/) — New machines can replace some jobs, like one robot doing the work of 10 packers, but they also create new ones, like fixing robots; people argue about whether it balances out. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/4/) — Looking for work can be long and upsetting, and family and friends really help; how much the government should help people out of work is something grown-ups disagree about, though both sides want people to be okay. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/5/) — Unemployment is not having a paid job when you want one; redundancy is losing your job because it is no longer needed. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/6/) — When a factory closes, local shops suffer too: 500 workers on £500 a week means 500 × £500 = £250,000 less to spend each week. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/7/) — The unemployment rate is the percentage of people looking for work who don't have it; 4% means 4 out of every 100. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/8/) — Finding a job can take time: 20 job applications with 2 replies is 1 reply in 10; an interview is a meeting to see if you get the job. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/9/) — Automation is machines doing work people did; one robot replacing 10 packers takes jobs, but new jobs appear too, and people disagree about whether it balances out. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/10/) — Furlough was government help in 2020, during the pandemic, paying part of the wages of people who couldn't work: £8 of every £10, so £1,000 of pay became £800. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/11/) — People argue about whether the furlough scheme worked well; it was reported to have kept many jobs, and it cost a lot of money. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/12/) — The economic cycle is the ups and downs of the economy: a boom is good times and a recession is bad times; unemployment falling from 6 in 100 to 4 in 100 is a sign of better times. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/13/) — A recession is when a country's economy shrinks for a while; GDP is the total value of everything a country makes, and shrinking 1% turns a £100 economy into £99. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/14/) — Jobs are not spread evenly: one town might have 8 in 100 unemployed and another 3 in 100, a difference of 5 in 100. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/15/) — Welfare is government help for people who need it, such as £400 a month compared with £1,600 from a low-paid job. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/16/) — Some say people out of work should get more help; others say too much help means less need to find work; both want people to be okay but disagree on how. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/35-unemployment-when-jobs-are-lost/17/) — Losing a job is not a sign that someone is lazy or bad; most job losses come from changes the worker cannot control. - ← previous: [Inflation explained with a chocolate bar](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/34-inflation-explained-with-a-chocolate-bar/) - next →: [Taxes and the government's budget](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/36-taxes-and-the-governments-budget/) - ↑ back to [Money](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/money/)