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...with a small cache of supplies and the modest remains of his savings account, and rolled out of his Columbia, Mo., home in search of the forgotten land. Life's desperate moments are terrifying but also exhilarating, for they open up the vast possibilities of reckless abandon. Jobless, wifeless, and 38 years old--"an age that carries its own madness and futility"--Least Heat Moon "took to the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected...
...what is left of America's roads, bridges, dams and sewers [Jan. 10], let us kill two birds with one stone. We should put every able-bodied person receiving welfare or unemployment benefits to work on this project. We would be restoring a sense of pride to the jobless who want to work and getting our money's worth from those who want only a handout...
...dismayed that the computer alone is Man of the Year. The title should be shared equally with unemployed Americans. The computer is the big reason why so many Americans are jobless...
...inflation from 12.4% in 1980, the year before President Reagan took office, to about 5% in 1982, a change that is often conveyed flatly and numerically? Or the simultaneous rise in unemployment from 7.4% to 10.8%, a development that lends itself to anecdotes and dramatic interviews with the jobless...
...Reporters Ed Rabel, Bernard Goldberg and Linda Douglass tellingly depicted the rise in productivity and entrepreneurial spirit among Third World competitors of Western manufacturers. The series disputed, moreover, the optimistic observation of a similar report by ABC's Richard Threlkeld a few weeks ago. Describing the retraining of jobless former auto workers in California, Threlkeld said: "These labor pains we are feeling are the economy giving birth to the 21st century...