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...them to work, the Government will have to help retrain many of the jobless veterans of aerospace and help redirect others into different industries. Washington is doing little of that. Its unimaginative performance augurs poorly for the even larger conversion to peacetime that will come later. At M.I.T. and the University of California, HUD has opened about 25 cram courses to prepare technologists for public-service jobs. One of the few programs that provide extensive retraining is run at the University of California at Irvine, where participants study for a master's degree in environmental engineering. But only 34 people...
Other soon-to-be-jobless CLE lawyers, along with Spangenberg's office, are presently challenging the legitimacy of the Boston school system's special classes for children classified as "mentally retarded...
...first time in seven months, unemployment dipped in January-or did it? The rate declined from a revised figure of 6.2% in December to 6% last month. But the actual number of jobless rose by 780,000, to 5,400,000, the highest since mid-1961. Unemployment usually increases in January, and seasonal adjustments brought last month's rate down...
...ideal, fully employed economy-far more than the Government has any chance of collecting from the underemployed economy that now exists. The hope is that the flow of dollars from Washington will sharply lift the economy out of the 1970 recession and put at least 1,000,000 jobless Americans back to work...
...fiscal year beginning next July -fiscal 1972-Nixon set a new rule for spending. Administration economists first calculated how much revenue the tax system would bring in if the U.S. jobless rate were only 4%-the current definition of "full employment"-instead of the present 6%. The figure came out at $229.3 billion, which one top budget drafter concedes may be "overly precise." In any case, that became the guide-after the November elections disclosed the political impact of a soft economy. Nixon declared last week that by proposing spending almost up to that limit but not beyond...