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Wynn: The recent surge in the region's unemployment is a direct result of the factory closures. Xiu: There has been no surge to explain. The figures you are pointing to reflect the ordinary seasonal dip that reverses every winter; measured year over year, the region's unemployment is flat.
Wynn and Xiu disagree over whether
- The region has actually experienced a surge in unemployment
- Factory closures can ever raise unemployment
- whether factory closures caused a similar unemployment pattern in earlier years
- Factories in the region have closed
- The unemployment figures follow a recurring seasonal pattern
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