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...this means that joblessness is increasing rapidly among unionized blue-collar workers, the proletariat par excellence. The very people who are used to steady work--work that provides dignity and enables one to support a family--are being laid off in droves. That makes the unemployment number an index of anxiety, anger, and humiliation as well...
...nation as good; 30% do so now. In October 1980, however, only 20% considered the state of the nation good, and the rating dropped to 18% in January 1981. The latest rating decline appears to be linked to worries about recession. Two out of three voters, and 74% of blue-collar workers, report that they have personally been affected by the recession. Nor is there much hope that this recession will be brief: 68% say the economic decline will last one or two years; only 24% believe it will last six months or less. And 65% think the Government should...
Recession anxiety is beginning to overtake the public's longstanding worries about inflation. Although 51% say they are more concerned about inflation than recession, 37% find recession a greater concern. Among blue-collar workers, 41% are more worried about recession, with 48% of nonwhites feeling that way. Nonetheless, there is also little expectation that inflation will decline much more before 1984. In an echo of the pointed question that Reagan posed to Jimmy Carter during the 1980 presidential debates, the Yankelovich organization asked voters if they were better off now than a year ago. No, answer 59%, while...
Nearly all the openings were for blue-collar and clerical employees, those tracked most consistently by the Labor Department, using figures supplied by employment offices in all 50 states. Thus the Government's figures exclude many white-collar professional jobs that are not listed with such offices, and the number of open jobs is actually higher than reported...
...will tour some 15 cities, including Los Angeles, Bethlehem, Pa., and Trenton, N.J., through 1984. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, it was photographed by Camilo Vergara, 37, a conservation specialist for the New Jersey department of energy, who first noticed Bunker architecture when he worked in blue-collar Jersey City in 1976-77. I'm not interested in creating artistic pictures. "I did want to document this organic urban change, which no one has investigated before...