Word: blue-collar
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...Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow, notes that 40% of American families, comprising 70 million family members, have incomes of between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. That is hardly a new or eyebrow raising perception, but the analysis points out that these "forgotten Americans"-many of them ethnics and blue-collar workers-feel bedeviled by crime, welfare, inflation and Government inattention. The squeeze is not only economic but social; the mystique of the nobility and value of labor is all but gone...
...diversity. Suburbia is something more than the stereotype of buttoned-down Wasp commuters and wives who slurp "tee many martoonis" at the country club. "Gary is as much a suburb of Chicago as Evanston," says Political Analyst Richard Scammon. The suburbs have become increasingly heterogeneous with the influx of blue-collar workers who now have middle-class incomes and attitudes. As Scammon puts it: "Workers now aren't concerned about Taft-Hartley; they're concerned about crabgrass." Along with crabgrass, ironically, come many of the problems that the new white suburbanites left the center cities to escape: higher...
...Britain." In the campaign's closing week, Powell's racist utterings assumed a major role. Demonstrators shouting "Sieg Heiir picketed his rallies, and squads of skinheads in braces and "bovver" boots formed guards of honor for him. Undeniably, Powell's message had substantial appeal to blue-collar white Britons, who resent the intrusions of the Pakistani, West Indian, African and Indian immigrants...
...social goad, the result of this reduction could be a slightly healthier atmosphere. In many communities, the situation seems somewhat closer to an argument or a bargaining session between equals. It is not too fanciful to see blacks turning into a conservative force some day, just as the blue-collar workers have. White Americans should welcome and encourage this. Right now black-white tribalism is frightening, and it may never be dissolved (if only because many people need it emotionally...
Hurt worst were full-time workers, mostly blue-collar whites on whom Nixon counts for political support. All together 270,000 jobs were lost last month, including 100,000 because of rubber, trucking and construction strikes. Now the great question vexing Nixon's policymakers is whether the figures will become much worse. The President's chief economist, Paul McCracken, still declines to call the current slump a recession (his own word is "recedence"), and he insists that the economy will bottom out at about its present level...