Argument 72 提纲

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Argument 72
Arg 72 downsizing causes hardship-o

The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a national newspaper.

Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in Elthyria maintains that the majority of competent workers who have lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment. But this claim is undermined by a recent report on the Elthyrian economy, which found that since 1999 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated, bringing the unemployment rate in Elthyria to its lowest level in decades. Moreover, two-thirds of these newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time.

*Downsizing is the process whereby corporations deliberately make themselves smaller, reducing the number of their employees.

Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.


C1: Your recent article on corporate downsizing* in Elthyria maintains that the majority of competent workers who have lost jobs as a result of downsizing face serious economic hardship, often for years, before finding other suitable employment.But this claim is undermined


G1: by a recent report on the Elthyrian economy, which found that since 1999 far more jobs have been created than have been eliminated, bringing the unemployment rate in Elthyria to its lowest level in decades.

G2: Moreover, two-thirds of these newly created jobs have been in industries that tend to pay above-average wages, and the vast majority of these jobs are full-time.

*Downsizing is the process whereby corporations deliberately make themselves smaller, reducing the number of their employees.


A1 (G1, C1): Jobs were created and made available when the workers lost their jobs.

A2 (G1, C1): Workers who get new jobs are paid well enough to keep up with inflation.

A3 (G1, C1): Workers who lost jobs actively looked for jobs. (Only those are counted when calculating unemployment rates)

A3 (G2, C1): The workers who lost jobs can get the full-time jobs that pay above-average wages.


information about who get the new jobs created and the skills required for the new jobs
- maybe the new jobs require new skills that the laid-off workers do not have
- perhaps the new jobs have been taken by newcomers or immigrants

information about the actual pay of the new jobs taken by the laid-off workers
- maybe the new jobs pay less despite the fact that the industry tends to pay above the average wages
-what about the other one-third
- maybe the laid-off workers end up with the part-time jobs


information about the employment and economic situation of the workers who have been laid off
- the best way to test the claim made in the article is to look at what happened to the workers who had been laid off
- how long did it take for them to get new jobs
- how well paid were they compared to earlier jobs



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