Maintaining a low level of unemployment helps the economy because employers have a greater range of employees to choose from ?

On average, everyone disagrees with significant nonconsensus between 262 voters.

Reasons To Disagree

Why is there such a focus on unemployment levels? Should we be looking a the number of people in paid employment as a better indicator of the economy. Unemployment figures can be too easily disguised as sickness beneficiaries, mothers / fathers at home looking after family, students, etc.

Low unemployment helps the economy, but it doesn't give employers more employees to choose from, in fact there are less potential employees available.

Employees would have a better range of prospective employees from a pool of motivated currently employed people who are looking for a change. It would also mean that conditions for employees would improve as employers would have to compete for staff.

I agree - A contradiction: ==> shows people HAVE to work to live, and jobs are hard 2 fill. Double negative

Low unemployment reduces the pool of available workers and drives wages up as employers need to compete for workers and pay them more. This in turn fuels inflation by driving prices up.

Poland when it first made the switch from Communism to a Market Economy suggest 5% unemployed any less might give unions too much power and people who can remember the effects of the 1950s Wharfers strike that nearly crippled the country still have bad memories to recall. But if we are going to have unemployment let make the money we pay to have them unemployed link to increases in Company and Business Tax.

Reasons To Agree

a low level unemployment rate would take power away from companies as there will less core stock (people) to xchange as they see fit, engineering will soon replace human interaction so look after the future as the future will not look after you