Shortages in the News

Shortages can be cause by...

• All of these options

• Weather

• Business Problems

• Diseases

Shortages can affect

• Individuals

• Governments

• Businesses

• All of these options are correct

What is one reason for a shortage of GM auto parts?

• Earthquake

• Worker strike

• Broken machinery

• Too many people purchasing GM vehicles

What are Chinese hog farmers doing to deal with pork shortages?

• Forcing rapid reproduction of hogs

• Growing larger and larger hogs

• Nothing

• Encouraging people to eat beef instead

What is an effect of the methods being used by Chinese hog farmers to deal with pork shortages?

• Decreased prices for pork

• More hog farmers

• Increased interest in the anatomy of hogs

• Health problems and lowered life expectancy of hogs

What is one cause of the worker shortage in the USA?

• Gap in pay between unskilled and skilled

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• More young people looking for work

• More senior citizens staying in the workforce

• High wages in trade jobs (construction, plumbing, etc.)

What is one way states are trying to deal with the worker shortage?

• Paying highly educated individuals more

• Eliminating job training programs in middle and high school

• Offering training and access to new job skills for former prisoners and high school dropouts

• Tightening licensing laws for certain professions on a state-by-state basis

When a shortage arises, people may be forced to...

• Find an existing replacement

• Go without a want/need

• Find a new way to produce economic products

• All are possibilites

Shortages can affect...

• Income

• Access basic necessities for survival

• Access to things people want but don't need to survive

• All are possible problems related with shortages

Shortages can affect...

• Everyone

• Only the rich

• Only the poor

• Usually the middles class