A graph titled U S Unemployment Rate from 1961 to 2011 has Year on the x-axis, from 1961 to 2011, and Percentage unemployed on the y-axis, from 0 to 10 percent in increments of 2. The graph decreases from 1961 to 1965, increases from 1965 to 1975, steadily decreases from 1975 to 2005, and then increases from 2005 to 2011. From 1981 to 2001, which change was most likely happening in the US economy? a decrease in spending by consumers an increase in the number of workers an increase in spending by consumers an increase in government intervention in the economy.