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Unfortunately, Quinn is not alone in his anguish; thousands of other jobless Illinoisans also have been kept waiting to get their benefit checks for inexcusably long periods. Just how many cannot be counted, since the IBES has been no more efficient at keeping track of how far behind it is than at handing out the money. But in August only 46.8% of Illinois jobless got their first checks within 28 days of filing a claim-the standard laid down by the U.S. Department of Labor. By contrast, 80% of the jobless in New York and Ohio, and 88% in California...
...Labor Department reported last week that unemployment inched down to 8.3% of the labor force in September, from 8.4% in August, continuing the slow reduction that economists have expected. A darker side to the figures: the number of workers jobless for 27 weeks or longer rose by 155,000 to a post-World War II high of 1.6 million...
Carter said he plans to streamline what he called "the horrible, bloated, confused government bureaucracy" and to "restore the work ethic" by creating public employment programs for the jobless...
Baxter and Kim share with Hesford a certain bitterness about the system--bitterness which emerges in serious personal questioning, in hurt pride, in a sense of the uselessness of daily routine. "When you're jobless," Hesford says, "the rigamarole you have to go through for your thesis after it's finished and the whole Commencement thing seem a little sour. You start thinking, 'What's the diploma worth...
...unemployment front, the jobless rate remained unchanged in August from July's 8.4% of the work force. While unemployment among adults dipped down encouragingly, from 7.3% to 7%, the rates for blacks (14%) and teen-agers (21.1%) were up once again. Other statistics confirmed that the recovery is continuing, however. Factory orders climbed 3.6% in July from a year ago. A robust $1.02 billion rise in consumer credit in July−the highest such increase in eleven months−suggested that Americans are regaining their willingness to borrow in order to buy major appliances and other big-ticket items...