Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Commercials also have deeper, more serious impact. In a discussion of the causes of last year's ghetto riots, the Kerner Report suggested that the enticements of TV commercials, "endlessly flaunted before the eyes of the Negro poor and the jobless ghetto youth," were an important inducement to the state of unrest. Opinion Researcher Mervin Field goes so far as to suggest that commercials constitute "a looter's shopping list...
...steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze on the Aid for Dependent Children program, enactment of a provision to create 450,000 jobs for the unemployed in the coming year, and funding of President Johnson's three-year program to employ 500,000 of the jobless in private industry. "If there is no response," Abernathy said last week, "we shall not have failed. Congress and America will have failed...
...Constitution," says Alan S. Traugott, 44, of Glen Ellyn, Ill., a white suburb west of Chicago. In March, this conviction led Traugott to resign his five-figure income and position as manager of the Sears, Roebuck store in Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood that is predominantly black. Now jobless, he intends to dedicate himself full time, in any way he can, to brotherhood between the black and white communities...
...part altruism, part profit. In many cities, poor and unskilled nonwhites now constitute almost the only untapped or underused reservoir of labor. Moreover, businessmen recognize that the economic health of cities is vital to the health of their own companies. The recent push by U.S. business to employ "hardcore jobless" has moved beyond tokenism to a substantial commitment to help quiet the smoldering volcano of urban unrest...
...weeks ago President Johnson announced that 60 top executives in manufacturing, banking, retailing, transport, utilities and other fields have agreed to try to find permanent work for 500,000 jobless from big-city ghettos by 1971. On top of that, the National Alliance of Businessmen will seek 200,000 jobs for ghetto youth this summer. Says Alliance Chairman Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co.: "Nothing can be plainer than the fact that these people must be given the chance to earn decent lives for themselves. And bringing them into the mainstream of the economy is a goal that...