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The author concludes that unemployment will soon decrease. This is based on the following:

If total gov. spending significantly increases next year, unemployment will decrease.

If total gov. spending significantly decreases next year, unemployment will decrease.

We have two triggers that can prove unemployment will decrease — gov. spending significantly increases or it significantly decreases next year. But do we know that either of those will actually occur? No. So to make the argument valid, we want to know that next year, gov. spending will significantly increase or it will significantly decrease.

(A) establishes that one of the two triggers for a decrease in unemployment will occur. So it must be true that unemployment will decrease next year.

(B) doesn’t establish that one of the two triggers for a decrease in unemployment will occur.

Although (C) tells us that IF there’s a significant increase in demand for workers, there will be a significant decrease in unemployment, we don’t have a premise establishing that there will be a significant increase in demand for workers.

(D) doesn’t establish that one of the two triggers for a decrease in unemployment will occur.

(E) doesn’t establish that one of the two triggers for a decrease in unemployment will occur. (E) is designed to reach a conclusion that unemployment will NOT decrease. But we’re trying to show that unemployment WILL decrease.

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