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...Michael Dukakis thinks he may have a more precisely tailored solution. Having already cut off welfare payments for childless adults capable of holding jobs, Dukakis last week revealed details of a "work experience program" for men with families. Beginning in September, some 2,000 Massachusetts fathers who have been jobless for two years will have to work for a government or nonprofit agency for three days a week, 96 hours a month. The penalty for refusal: denial of the father's share of checks issued under the classification of "aid to families with dependent children." the costliest category...
...Dublin college, was a star television performer and joined the Cosgrave Cabinet in 1973. Although Keating is a member of the left-leaning Labor Party, his youthful radical ideology has been replaced by a pragmatic view: only heavy foreign private investment can ameliorate the country's unemployment. The jobless rate is now about 13%, and some 30,000 youths leaving school this summer will join the ranks, plus farm-laboring families that are being displaced by more efficient agriculture. No wonder the electorate is seething with dissatisfaction...
Millions of jobless young people between 16 and 24 roam the streets of major U.S., Canadian and European cities, looking for work by day and cramming into bars, beer halls, sleazy pubs and pool rooms at night. "Hanging around" has become an occupation in itself, a dreary, unstructured existence with little money and even less fun. There is talk of sex, sports and cars, as usual, but the main preoccupation is with the hopeless job market and what governments are doing to stimulate employment. Those attempts range from President Carter's proposed $1.5 billion expansion of current youth employment...
...Room for Guests. In some countries, more youths than ever are seeking work. According to the latest figures for the nine Common Market nations in Western Europe, there are about 1.8 million jobless youths; they make up 37% of all unemployed in the region. In Britain, more than 500,000 young people are out of work, equal to 35% of all the unemployed. French youths account for 37.6% of the jobless. West Germany's youthful unemployment of 24.8% of those out of work is the lowest in Europe, but that contrasts with conditions three years ago when Germany...
Some U.S. critics feel that youth joblessness is healthy to a certain extent, a time of discovery, of winnowing, a "natural process of settling permanently into the job market," as Harvard's Freeman says. There is widespread agreement that U.S. jobless youths do not feel permanently shut out of the economic system, as do many of their counterparts in Europe, nor do most of them feel alienated from the work ethic. Thousands of New York City youths stood in line overnight last month to sign up for federally funded summer jobs. As M.I.T. Economist Michael Piore puts...