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...first half of this year, ten states had to borrow a total of $2.37 billion from the Federal Government in order to pay basic benefits to their jobless workers. For all of 1981, nine states borrowed only $1.6 billion. These loans, coupled with unpaid balances incurred during earlier downturns, have pushed the total indebtedness for 16 states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, to $7.8 billion. That figure is expected to grow to $9.5 billion by year's end, and more states are likely to join the list of loan seekers before the recovery...
...them to borrow from the Federal Government in order to keep on paying workers' benefits. More than half of the debt due the Federal Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund, for example, is owed by four big industrial states: Illinois, with 10.6% unemployment; Michigan, with the nation's highest jobless rate of 14.3%; Pennsylvania, at 9.8% joblessness; and Ohio, where unemployment is 11.1%. Each of the first three states owes $1.6 billion, while Ohio is $1.1 billion...
...city jobless rate is currently at 7.6 percent of the work force, which translates into at least 5,000 residents out of work. Youth unemployment stands at 14 percent, with figures for Black youths rising to 41 percent...
...most of the less-developed countries, the global downturn has been devastating. In Costa Rica, where unemployment has risen to 17%, the government is stepping up a program to hand out bread, rice, beans and other food to the jobless. In Tanzania, where inflation is running at 29%, the government has dropped 966 projects from its budget, including the construction of several schools and the country's new capital at Dodoma...
...President Ronald Reagan first proposed his fiscal 1982 budget 148 days ago, the mesmerizing specter of gargantuan federal deficits has haunted an already skittish U.S. economy. As the red ink has swelled, growth has sagged further and further, interest rates have lurched about unpredictably, and ever lengthening lines of jobless workers have begun coiling out from unemployment offices around the country...