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...1960s, have never been laid off before and do not quite know what has hit them. In many ways, today's unemployed are different from those of earlier years. Though members of minority groups and blue-collar workers are the most vulnerable to layoffs, a surprising number of jobless people are unpoor and unblack...
...mostly white construction industry is in a deep slump, outside of a few cities. Unemployment among hardhats in September reached 13.8%, the highest since 1963. White-collar workers constitute another group no longer immune to layoffs. Though the unemployment rate among them is only 2.8%, the number of jobless white-collar workers has jumped in the past year from 932,000 to 1,258,000. Unemployment has also been rising fast among workers in farming, lumber, machinery, and-even before the strike -the auto industry...
Executive Layoffs. Seasoned executives and high-paid technicians are feeling the sting of unemployment. The Labor Department reports that the number of jobless "professional and managerial" workers has climbed in the past year from 279,000 to 409,000. In many cities, voluntary job-placement centers have opened up to teach these men the skills they have forgotten: how to write a resume, how to look for a job, what to do while waiting...
Graduating to Joblessness. Young people are the worst off. Teen-age unemployment has risen in the past year from 12.9% to 16.8%. In September, the jobless rate among men aged 20 to 24 reached 11%, the highest in nine years. Many of the men mustered out of the armed forces this year are still searching for work. For example, Jim Krauland, 23, returned to Seattle in April after spending almost four years in the Marines. "I had been a cook," he says, "so I figured that I would be able to get something in that lin; without trouble." He found...
...offers, or even one. Bruce Bronn, 23, prudently began looking for a job last January while he was still a senior at Chicago's Columbia College, seeking any possible position in journalism, advertising or public relations. Some 100 interviews later, he is a veteran of the jobless rolls, living with his mother and struggling to meet monthly car payments. His $45-a-week unemployment compensation runs out in December. "It is frustrating, it is maddening," he says. "I went to school four years to learn a profession, and still I cannot get a job. I had to graduate from...