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...revised version authorizes the President to scrap the 4% jobless target if necessary to keep inflation from rising rapidly-a signal to wary businessmen that the Administration is serious about holding prices down...
Many Indians grow up on the reservation and don't leave until they have reached adulthood. Even today, many Indians go to the city for work without a high school diploma or job skills. Split away from their homes and friends, some jobless and poor, in a strange land, many Indians become alienated and withdraw into bars and never come out. Saunders says most Indians who trek to the city eventually return to the reservation to live. Grace Roderick traveled around the country for many years while her husband was in the service, building a family from Seattle to Virginia...
...have at least a moderately adverse effect on unemployment. The department reports that about 90,000 people will not be hired next year because the higher wage is certain to discourage some employers from taking on additional employees. That is bad news for unskilled youths, especially black teenagers, whose jobless rate is now 37.4%. Says Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The great majority of economists-liberal and conservative -feel that this legislation is bad economics." The business community agrees. Notes U.S. Chamber of Commerce Vice President Jack Carlson: "It's ironic that...
Like most European nations, France is in severe economic trouble. Price increases in 1977 are expected to average just under 10%; industry is stagnant; the number of jobless workers has jumped 23% in the past year, to a near record 1,159,000. What makes France different is that the economy is also in a race of sorts: how much it improves in the next few months-if it does at all-may determine whether a government that includes Communists comes to power as a result of the legislative elections that must be held by next March. True, the Socialist...
...terms of electoral politics, the simple fact is that the old vote on a more regular basis than youths first entering the job market, and far more regularly than the increasingly jobless minorities and other underprivileged groups of the inner cities...