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...policymakers, the payments deficit pointed up one especially irksome aspect of this dilemma. Low interest rates-along with a bigger money supply and a tax cut-are needed to spur business and consumer spending and help put the jobless back to work. Yet the same low rates that speed recovery also drive money out of the country, aggravating the payments deficit and eroding confidence in the dollar. In large part because interest rates in the U.S. are lower than in Europe the dollar lately has been depressed on world markets, and it remains undervalued. Observed Salomon Bros' Henry Kaufman...
Just about everybody has some extra cushions, though they are becoming thin and frayed. Most (but not all) jobless auto workers collect supplemental unemployment benefits of just under 95% of their basic pay. But Chrysler Corp.'s SUB funds are expected to run out by early April and General Motors' by mid-May. Other unemployed people are drawing down their bank savings and selling off stocks. In sum, few people are totally destitute yet, but there could be spreading poverty and grave social trouble if high unemployment persists...
...varying ways, the unemployed are learning how to cope. Jobless Viet Nam veterans are signing up in record numbers for college or vocational courses to collect G.I. Bill benefits, which pay $270 a month for a single person. After collecting their food stamps at the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, some of the unemployed stop at nearby vacant lots-to pick wild mustard greens. A laid-off Chrysler senior engineer, James Howard, 44, has become a Mr. Fixit, going round his neighborhood in Detroit to repair furnaces, rehabilitate appliances and install storm windows that he builds. Norman Sanders...
When the unemployment figures come under fire-as they characteristically do when they are high-they are accused of both exaggerating and understating the "real" extent of joblessness. The overall unemployment rate is Indisputably swollen somewhat by the inclusion in the jobless totals of housewives, students and others who may be only marginally dependent upon regular paychecks. It can be argued, for in stance, that the jobless rates among heads of households (5.4% v. 3.0% a year ago) or adult males (6.2% v. 3.5%) are far better barometers of economic distress than unemployment among teenagers...
...some ways the figures understate unemployment. The jobless totals do not include the so-called hidden unemployed. They are Americans-most of them women and elderly men-who want jobs but have given up trying to find them. These "discouraged workers" are considered not unemployed but to have left the labor force altogether. As of the last quarter of 1974, the number of such workers stood at 796,000, but many more have joined that category since then. Most of some 580,000 Americans who left the labor force in February were discouraged workers...