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...government economic recovery plan, for example, had been attacked by workers who felt that they would suffer from new austerity measures and wage restraints. Similarly, the Andreotti government's failure to make a dent in unemployment, which rose from 1.5 million to 1.7 million in 1978, caused the jobless to criticize Berlinguer for not pushing through employment programs...
...balance, the recommendations would make unemployment rates slightly higher than now. Main reason: the commission wants to count as unemployed any discouraged worker who has sought a job within the past six months, vs. four weeks under present policy. That change, says the commission, would raise the jobless rate by two -or three-tenths of a point...
...million servicemen to be employed. They are not included in the labor force statistics now; this made sense when most servicemen were removed from the ranks of job seekers by the draft, but is outdated in the era of the volunteer Army. Including them would reduce the jobless rate...
Advent will be out of Cambridge on February 15, leaving about 450 workers jobless, Peter Sprague, the company president, said last week. "I knew when I got here three and a half years ago that we would have to move," he added...
...slashing of federal jobs programs, which would wipe out over 150,000 jobs provided by the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, and practically eradicate the Youth Conservation Corps., does much more than eliminate wasteful government spending--it exposes the President as a man with little commitment to millions of jobless Americans. Today's unemployment rate of six per cent is fine by Jimmy Carter. And apparently, so is the higher unemployment rate his in-house economists boldly predict for the year's end if Carter's proposed budget cuts and ever-higher interest rates come to pass. It is more...