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...built on the work ethic, and for all the evolution in lifestyles, the first identification for most Americans remains what they do, the job they hold. There are many monetary cushions, from unemployment insurance to food stamps, to aid the jobless in today's economy, but there is no balm for the sense of anomie and loss felt by an able man or woman whose skills are no longer wanted anywhere. The memory cells of the nation are still etched with the widespread corrosion of self-confidence that occurred in the Great Depression, and last week's startling...
Apparently Ford thinks either his advertising campaign to whip inflation now" is working or that poor people don't need to eat. The price of food continues to rise as the inflation rate remains as 12 per cent, and unemployment rises with over 7.5 million people jobless...
...senior man in the U.S. auto industry. He also has few rivals for outspoken candor. Other auto chiefs fairly shuddered last November when Ford warned that the industry was headed into "a depression" and called for a big tax on gasoline to finance aid to the jobless. In an interview with TIME'S Detroit bureau chief Edwin Reingold last week, Ford confessed amazement at the depth of uncertainty that he finds about the economic future, even in Detroit. "I've never seen a time like this, when nobody even has an opinion," he said. That does not apply...
Long lines of jobless Detroiters were trailing out of the red brick office of the Michigan Employment Security Commission on Conner Avenue when Labor Secretary Peter Brennan stopped by for a recent visit. To his consternation, he was greeted with a storm of catcalls. "You promised us jobs," one man shouted. "You shouldn't come around here and smile at us. We're mad!" Added a furloughed Chrysler employee: "They ought...
...outfits in the Detroit area that are hiring these days is the state Employment Security Commission, which has opened 22 temporary offices and taken on 1,000 paper shufflers to help handle the mounting claims for jobless benefits. In Detroit itself, close to 100,000 auto assemblers, cashiers, construction workers, technicians and middle-level managers-18% of the city's labor force-are unemployed. In the suburbs, thousands of others are without jobs. As Coleman Young, the black mayor of the nation's fifth largest city, put it, oh so mildly, in a recent speech, Detroit has "fallen...