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...breadwinners. The unemployment rate for adult women was lower than for men (7.5%), but the rate of joblessness among women with families to support was also a postwar record 10.7% during the last three months of 1981. And while the burden of joblessness still falls most heavily on blue-collar workers, it is spreading into the ranks of white-collar employees: from December 1980 to December 1981, white-collar unemployment rose from...
...racial minorities (30%). Typically the discouraged tend to be unskilled and undereducated, and accustomed to long periods of unemployment. But one important measure of the severity of the current recession is that a growing share of the discouraged are men and a significant number are white and white-collar-the people usually thought to be best insulated from economic downturns. From the end of 1980 to the end of 1981 the total of discouraged grew by 150,000 to 1.2 million; that is, according to the BLS, the largest number since World War II. Some 72% of them blame market...
...setting is sedate New Wave: dean, short hair cuts, collar-less button-down shirts, and some well-tailored leather jackets. Except for Psycho, no one is younger than 20 or so, and most pay for more attention to the watery mixed drinks than to Mission of Burma--one of Boston's better club bands, with a couple of well-received singles and an "extended-play mini-album" so its credit...
...around to make sure they're doing it correctly. Not all of them are. One kid yells, "Stop slam dancing! I know people who broke ribs slamming!" His left ear gleams with a diamond, and he is connected to a girl by a chain that runs from his leather collar to hers...
...grudgingly--people who have voted Democratic all their lives would often rather fight than switch. Reagan's victory was a cautious mandate born of desperation, not an enthusiastically written blank check. The failure of Reaganomics to deliver jobs sets the stage for an especially harsh backlash heightened by blue-collar feelings of betrayal...