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...gross domestic product ($69.3 billion in 1982) and a current unemployment rate of 20%. The key problem, however, is a foreign debt of about $34 billion, the result of years of uncontrolled government spending that eventually coincided with sharply reduced revenues from oil, Venezuela's principal foreign-exchange earner...
...Joseph Earner Panorama City, Calif...
Palme's most controversial plan is known as the wage-earner fund, an innovative concept designed to increase worker investment in industry. The plan would impose a 1% levy on wages, paid by the employer, and a 20% corporate tax on "excess profits," to be contributed to a fund that would be set up in each of Sweden's 24 counties. The pool of money, expected to grow by $1 billion a year, would be used to purchase shares in profitable companies. Critics in business and industry as well as Palme's political opponents warn, however, that...
Says Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder: "The primary reason women are entering the labor force in such unprecedented numbers is to maintain their family's standard of living." Statistics are the arithmetic of social revolution: from 1960 to 1980, one-earner households have declined from 49.6% to 22.4%, a staggering change. The percentage of married women in the staggering change. The percentage of married women in the work force during the same period has risen from 32% to 51%. The number of children with mothers who work (31.8 million) has become, for the first time, larger than the number of children with...
...hadn't seen them in months. They called up an hour and a half earner out of the blue and wanted to come over," the senior said, adding, "I met them at a party once some where...