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...villain, but it will do little to solve the city's long-range problems. It will cost billions of lire, which Naples clearly does not have, to upgrade the sanitation system. Meanwhile, the city's multitude of hard-core unemployed has been swelled by thousands of jobless fishermen, restaurant workers, peddlers and dockers. All are ripe targets for the violent rhetoric of left-wing and neofascist agitators. The disease may have been contained, but it will be a long time before Naples recovers from a more damaging illness: il dopocolera, the after-cholera...
...drought and labor sabotage of power plants have left New Delhi, the nation's capital, blacked out or browned out three times in as many months and many factories unable to operate. Unemployment is hard to pinpoint statistically in a land of perpetual underemployment (estimated at 24%). The jobless are now numbered at some 20 million, or about 9% of the total work force. Worse yet, of the jobless about 5.3 million are educated men whom India needs most to put to work...
...fact, for the past five months the jobless rate has stubbornly held at 5% -a figure that few other industrialized nations would tolerate. May figures due out this week could show some decline. Yet even Herbert Stein, head of the Council of Economic Advisers and an eternal optimist about the economic outlook, predicts that the jobless rate will drop only to about 4.5% by year's end. That expectation has led the Administration to redefine "full employment" by dropping the old numerical target of a 4% unemployment rate and shoot instead for a condition in which persons who want...
...redefinition is small comfort to the 4.2 million people now vainly looking for work. Predictably, most are uneducated, unskilled, nonwhite and/or female. Although only 2.4% of married men are without jobs, some six out of 100 women are still looking. The non-white jobless rate (9.1%) continues to be slightly more than double that for whites (4.5%). In April some 15.4% of teen-age job seekers were without work, scarcely fewer than a year ago. An unusually high percentage of teen-agers are looking for employment now, partly because they no longer face the draft. People who fall into more...
...distribution of jobless rates among various population groups has hardly changed at all since, say, April 1965 -indicating that the nation has made dishearteningly little progress including blacks, women and youths in productive jobs even in a flat-out boom. And as the boom gives way to an inevitable 1974 slowdown, unemployment rates could well climb next year from the present unsatisfactory level...