It is a known fact that unemployment and the crime rate work together hand in hand. I will say the rate of unemployment is directly proportional to the crime rate, and the United States is not an exemption in the matter. When there is an increase in unemployment, there would also definitely be an increase in desperation, poverty, as well as the crime rate.
Unemployment simply refers to the state of being jobless. Unemployment actually leads to an increase in poverty and hunger, which in turn, makes people be desperate to do relatively anything, and thereby leading many to criminal acts.
Although there are several reasons or causes that can lead to crime, which include poverty, low self-esteem, drug abuse and alcohol, and some other few causes, and of which none of these really has much influence on the crime rate as unemployment. However, the rate of unemployment in the United States is at about 6.9 percent.