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...Sarah Button in addition to correspondents and stringers across the country. From Washington, National Economics Correspondent John Berry and Correspondent John Stacks reported on the big picture: how the economy and unemployment affect each other; who the people are that make up the swelling army of 7.5 million jobless Americans; what role the Government plays...
...debate-is still the economic stimulant that could be provided by income tax refunds." That judgment was reinforced when the Labor Department reported that an additional 540,000 workers, most of them in manufacturing industries, were out of jobs in February (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). To help ease the jobless situation, Ford urged Congress last week to appropriate slightly more than $2 billion for 760,000 additional summer jobs for youths and a six-months extension of some 310,000 public service jobs. On the other hand, Ford roundly criticized Congress for appropriating more funds than he has recommended to stimulate...
...papers, Delaware's two statewide dailies, which last week opened their classified pages to the unemployed free of charge. The response from the unemployed was startling. "We were expecting 400, maybe 500 ads at most," says Classified Manager Thomas P. Grant Jr. In the first week, 1,095 jobless people-secretaries and executives, graphic artists and truck drivers, bartenders, librarians and engineers-sent in their pleas for work...
Many states require that workers seeking jobless benefits first apply to an unemployment office and then return every week or two to show that they are willing to work if the office can provide them with a job suited to their skills. If it cannot, the worker signs a form, and in some states, like New Jersey, he picks up his check on the spot. In other states, like New York, workers must still show up at the office, but after they sign their form they have to wait for the check to be mailed to their home...
Building Sentiment. The sudden surge of joblessness has swamped unemployment offices. Out-of-work people have to stand for hours in long lines in dreary surroundings and be subjected to snappish treatment by overworked clerks. Worse, because of the heavy work load in the offices, the checks on which the jobless depend are either not ready when they appear at the office or are late in arriving in the mail. In Georgia, for instance, benefit applications early this month were running at 96,000 a week, v. 19,000 last year, and checks for some people were still arriving...