Word: jobless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they do across the nation, economic class divisions further complicate racial rifts, with wealth filling the gaps and poverty widening them. The average black family in Greensboro makes about two-thirds of what a typical white family brings in, and, while the city's jobless rate is only 3.4%, the unemployment rate for blacks is about three times as high as it is for whites. "It's still a legacy of race, but it's written about more in terms of class," says Robert Davis, a sociology professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University...
...Zhou, who is jobless, there are no more thoughts, however fleeting, of white flags. Asserting that he will continue to speak out against China's leaders, he says, "I plan to walk on two legs. One is to find a job. The other, when the moment is opportune, is to kick their butts...
...murder stunned a city already beset by spiraling racial tensions. To many New Yorkers it symbolized a breakdown in racial civility that had no quick explanation or readily available cure. Some of the youths accused of killing Hawkins were jobless school dropouts with histories of drug abuse -- mirror images in whiteface of underclass young black males. The whites had armed themselves on the night of Aug. 23 because the former girlfriend of their alleged leader, Keith Mondello, had invited black and Hispanic guests to her birthday party. They mistook Yusuf and his comrades for those guests...
...bungling to small and snappy will not be painless. Even those Kombinate most likely to survive the rigors of a free market, such as optics manufacturer Zeiss-Ikon Jena, will have to cut their bloated payrolls. Officials in Bonn have estimated that the ranks of the East German jobless will grow from 26,000 today to an estimated 2 million (out of a work force of 8 million) by next year...
They were diligent and strong, and they were jobless. They were victims of economic dislocation and plain bad luck. One of them told us of building a home for his family, only to have it destroyed by a gas explosion a week later, before he had purchased insurance...