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Several other groups have vehemently attacked this part of the affirmative action program, claiming that goals are no different than quotas, which, inforcing institutions to hire a specific number of certain kinds of people, undermines the merit system...
...April some 15.4% of teen-age job seekers were without work, scarcely fewer than a year ago. An unusually high percentage of teen-agers are looking for employment now, partly because they no longer face the draft. People who fall into more than one of the hard-to-hire categories face particularly tough going. In the Watts section of Los Angeles, reports Herbert Hill, national labor director for the N.A.A.C.P., more than 40 out of every 100 black women are unemployed...
...workers from reaching suburban jobs. Many vocational schools have equipped students with outmoded skills. The heavy burden of employee fringe benefits and employer contributions to Social Security and unemployment-compensation funds prompts some big employers, like those in the auto industry, to work their labor forces overtime instead of hiring. The Nixon Administration has sharply reduced funds to hire ghetto youth and support ? job training programs for minorities -cutbacks that, asserts the N.A.A.C.P.'S I Hill, could consign many ghetto dwellers to a future in which they "have no anticipation of ever entering the labor force" and will have...
...have risen 30.5% in the past three years, v. a 17.5% increase for whites, but the black average is still only about one-eighth the typical white scale. And the U.S. firms that have been raising black pay and benefits dramatically are a distinct minority; many American companies still hire black workers at minimum wages as startlingly low as $50 a month...
Short-Handed. A possible middle course would allow the government to own all the oil equipment and hire Western companies to operate it, an arrangement worked out between Iran and its foreign oil firms after the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. was nationalized. One U.S. oilman terms such deals, which would allow U.S. companies to continue turning a profit in the Middle East, "the wave of the future," and Gaddafi probably will want foreign oil workers to remain on his soil, since Libya is short of native technical and managerial talent...