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...become. People lose job skills, social skills and the will to search for a job as they spend time out of work. Unemployment affects individuals' sense of well being, producing higher rates of depression and lower levels of life satisfaction. Studies have shown mixed results as to the effect of unemployment on health. On average all job losers tend to face a permanent reduction in their salary, and that is even more common for the long-term unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Dips, but Long-Term Joblessness Remains a Concern | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...judge from the spiking numbers, those efforts may be having an effect. Despite criticism from the right that the stimulus was a waste and risked adding to government jobs, not private-sector ones, the unexpected drop in overall rates came with only an additional 7,000 jobs in the government sector. But July's indications of improvements do little to ease some economists' fears about long-term unemployment now that 1 in 3 unemployed persons has been looking for work for 27 weeks or more. Galbraith of the University of Texas at Austin believes that some workers have intentionally left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unemployment Dips, but Long-Term Joblessness Remains a Concern | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

Past research has also shown that peer exposure can worsen behavior. In a 1995 study conducted by Dishion involving 158 high-risk families in Oregon, researchers compared the impact on teens' behavior of four interventions: parenting groups focused on effective discipline, social-skills-training groups for teens, both the parent- and teen-focused group interventions, or no group treatment at all. Overall, the parent-focused group was most effective, leading to reductions in teen smoking and misbehavior at school. The teen-focused group, by contrast, significantly increased participants' rate of aggressive behavior and smoking; in the combination group, kids showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Juvenile Detention Makes Teens Worse | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...Hotel, the mastermind behind a terrorist cell uncovered in Barcelona that same year and the dispatcher of numerous suicide bombers in South Asia. Earlier this year, he threatened a massive terrorist attack on Washington that would "amaze everyone in the world." (Read "Islamabad After the Marriott Bombing: The Baghdad Effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Pakistan's Taliban Chief Dead? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...capital punishment appears not to have had much effect. Kenya is so beset by crime that it can be unsafe to walk in Nairobi at night, and carjackings and violent robbery are common. "In Kenya, [the death penalty] has not stopped murder - indeed, the rate has been going up by leaps and bounds - nor has it discouraged violent robbery," The Daily Nation said in an editorial after the decision was announced. There are no current figures for the crime rate in Kenya, but the U.S. State Department says there is a "high rate of crime in all regions of Kenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya's Death Row Inmates Get Life Instead | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

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