A graph titled Sample Unemployment Rate Graph has the date on the x-axis and unemployment rate percentage on the y-axis, from 0 to 10 in increments of 2. The x-axis contains the dates August 10, January 11, June 11, and November 11. A line starts at August 10 and curves slightly down below 4 percent at January 11, and then back up toward November 11. In January of 2011, the unemployment rate in this nation was about . Based on the trend that began around June of 2011, economists may predict that the unemployment rate will continue to in the future.