The unemployment rate rose between 1968 and 1970 from 3.6 to 4.9 percent-a jump of more than 33 percent. The consumer price index increased by roughly 11 percent in the same period. Analysts of the economy coined a new and memorable term for what seemed to be happening: "stagflation.
( James T. Patterson )
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