Word: homelessness
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...discouraged work force has recently become the subject of a growing debate. Many economists argue that the number of discouraged workers has itself been underestimated. Not included in the category, for instance, are most of the nation's homeless. To be officially counted as unemployed, you must have an address. Some claim that the number of Americans who have given up looking for work is twice the official estimate. Most economists urge the Labor Department to beef up its reporting methods to improve its count of discouraged workers. Says former U.A.W. leader Douglas Fraser, now a professor of labor studies...
...case came to light two weeks ago -- just as Milwaukee mass-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer was making headlines -- when Louisiana police arrested Evans. He told them he had kidnapped, raped and strangled Beatrice Routh, a 10-year- old homeless girl, on Aug. 1. As proof, he led police to her body in a grassy field off a rural Mississippi highway. Last week a murder charge in the Routh case was filed against Evans in Mississippi. Federal kidnapping charges will follow this week...
...Brooks' winning streak lasted through the '70s. But people are avoiding Brooks' Life Stinks, a kind of Homeless Alone about a billionaire on the bum, as if it were trying to wipe a rag across their windshield. Brooks' old colleague Gene Wilder has fared no better with Another You, in which he plays a compulsive liar coupled in a complex scam with con man Richard Pryor. On its second weekend of release, this mediocre jape averaged a pathetic $262 per screen; that's about 50 people in each theater all weekend. With those numbers, a moviemaker can go broke...
...Milwaukee County less than 30% of the kids whose families had welfare payments docked for poor attendance were actually in school two months after being sanctioned. Last summer U.S. District Court Judge Terence Evans ordered that Learnfare be suspended in Milwaukee. "Recipients," he wrote, "should not be made homeless and hungry in the name of social experimentation." In October, however, the judge reinstated Learnfare, after the city improved its record keeping and hired social workers to help truant teens...
Just about everybody can claim a position in the rights brigade: those who smoke and those who don't; those who demand shelter for the homeless and those who support the right of the homeless to refuse shelter; those who claim rights for fetuses and those who want the right to make their own choice for abortion; those who want their teenagers taught to use condoms and those who insist on the right to keep their kids ignorant of such things; campus hoodlums who insult their fellow students and college administrators who promulgate censorious "rules of conduct" to prevent their...