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Economic improvement is improving the economic level or condition of society to improve the standard of living through the use of energy, time and valuable goods. The community's efforts to fulfill their daily needs are in the form of clothing, food and shelter. This service uses a descriptive qualitative approach. From the results of research activities carried out in Marjandi Pematang Village, Gunung Meriah, it can be concluded that efforts to improve the village economy through duck egg production have quite large potential..

Fluctuations in the number of hotel guests which tend to decrease encourage managers to further improve management performance so that things that influence the decline can be identified and then implemented as appropriate strategies to overcome them. Consumers or guests in this case are a heterogeneous community who come from various backgrounds, characteristics, habits, regions, cultures and economic levels. Based on several theories, previous research and the phenomenon of this problem, research was conducted to analyze the influence of service quality on consumers' decisions to stay at the Surabaya Youth Hostel. In research that wants to see the influence of tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy on the decision to stay at the Surabaya Youth Hostel. By using tabulated data from the results of a population survey with a sample of 40 respondents, visitors staying at the Surabaya Youth Hostel were analyzed. using multiple linear regression analysis tools, it can be seen. The R value of 0.951 means that the relationship between the independent variables tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy on consumer decisions to stay overnight is close and strong. This is indicated by an R value above 50%, namely 95.1%. The simultaneous determination value (R square) is 0.904, meaning that variations in tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy regarding consumer decisions to stay overnight change by 90.4% while the remaining 9.6% is influenced by other variables not studied. In this research, it can be seen that the variables tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy influence simultaneously (simultaneously) on the decision to stay by producing an Fcount value of 64,219 and a Ftable of 2.4 with a df in the numerator of 5 and the denominator of 34. By using the test t can be seen that all independent variables, including tangible, reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, have a partial influence on the decision to stay, where reliability with a calculated t coefficient value of 4,877 is the variable that has the most influence on the decision to stay.

The research is a process of analyzing the effect of unemployment on poverty through economic growth in North Sumatra Province from 2021 until 2023. The survey was conducted in 2023 districts/cities in North Sumatra Province by the North Sumatra Central Statistics Agency. 2021-2023. The results of this research state that population growth has a strong significance on the level of open unemployment. However, economic growth has a negative impact on the open unemployment rate. At the same time, population size and economic level are related to open unemployment. These results suggest that states and city governments should pay more attention to this issue. To improve the regional economy and slow population growth, apart from investing money, the focus should also be on creating new jobs. In this way, more people will get jobs and the problems of unemployment and poverty will be reduced.

Tunjungrejo Village is a clear example of how religious and cultural symbols can become the collective identity and existence of a community. This article describes how symbols such as the cross, coconut shoots, rice, cotton and mountains are not only the dominant manifestation of Christianity in the village, but also display the social dynamics and cultural diversity that exist. These symbols not only illustrate history and religious, economic traditions but also depict the values ​​upheld by society, such as tolerance and interfaith coexistence. Even though there is a Muslim minority in the community, the existence of these symbols reflects an effort to maintain collective identity and existence, while remaining open to interaction and integration with other groups in society. So that it can improve the economic level of village residents through the creative economy. Thus, Tunjungrejo Village is an interesting location to research in understanding the complexity of the relationship between cultural symbols, collective identity, and social dynamics in the context of rural communities.

The classic problem for city residents is the economic problem which is still not evenly distributed, where there are already residents with a high economic level, but there are still many city residents whose economy is below the poverty line due to low education and minimal skills so they can only work as unskilled laborers. minimal income. For this reason, this article wants to propose skills training that can be used to improve the economy by becoming an entrepreneur who uses websites to market his wares. With training to create an online shop using WordPress, the costs required by residents are not expensive and the material taught is also not too difficult. Hopefully this training can be a solution to the problems of city residents.