Question

This graph shows the changing unemployment rate in the United States.

A graph titled U S Unemployment Rate from 1961 to 2011 has Year on the x-axis, from 1961 to 2011, and Percentage unemployed on the y-axis, from 0 to 10 percent in increments of 2. The graph decreases from 1961 to 1965, increases from 1965 to 1975, steadily decreases from 1975 to 2005, and then increases from 2005 to 2011.

From 2001 to 2011, unemployment in the United States

stayed the same.
slightly changed.
sharply increased.
sharply decreased.

Answer 1

Sharply increased.

Although unemployment fell slightly from 2001 to 2005, it rose steeply from 2005 through 2011, ending much higher in 2011 than in 2001.