2. How many of valence electrons do the elements in column 4 have? Are these elements very reactive? Explain your answer.

Which of the following is true? a. under the current unemployment insurance system, benefits replace about 90 percent of the typical worker's prior pretax earnings. b. high benefit payments to unemployed workers will tend to increase the rate of unemployment. c. if a system of personal savings accounts replaced the current unemployment benefit system, the unemployment rate would fall to zero. d. the rate of unemployment in the large european economies has been persistently lower than that of the united states due to their more generous unemployment benefits.