A graph of the U.S. unemployment rate over the twentieth century shows:
A) an overall upward trend in the unemployment rate interrupted by a large upturn in the 1930s.
B) an overall downward trend in the unemployment rate interrupted by a large upturn in the 1930s.
C) rates of unemployment always greater than zero with substantial variations from year to year.
D) alternating periods of positive and negative rates of unemployment.

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The U.S. unemployment rate has always been greater than zero, with significant fluctuations due to economic cycles, including a notable increase during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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