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Until the Federal Government came tardily to the rescue, Seattle's jobless relied mainly on an impressive, volunteer, church and community effort called Neighbors in Need, started in November 1970 to mobilize Seattle's haves to aid its havenots. By December 1971, the group had given out nearly 500,000 bags of food, and its 1,500 volunteer workers had put in 400,000 man-hours feeding an average of 15,000 people per week. The food came from door-to-door collections and other individual donations. Washington farmers gave tons of apples, pears, potatoes and wheat...
...program poses some difficult questions. For example, only those who hold jobs would be eligible for the program. Thus participation would be denied to the neediest citizens, and there are a lot of them; the island's jobless rate is about 12%. Still Ferre's recommendation is a bold call for action in meeting Puerto Rico's social and economic needs...
...some drawbacks. A study by Otto Eckstein's Data Resources Inc. notes that it would slow the economic recovery by slightly increasing prices. This would crimp sales and production and thus retard a return to full employment. The study estimates that with the VAT the jobless rate at the end of 1973 would be an estimated 5%, v. 4.8% without it. The VAT will meet determined opposition in Congress. Democrats and labor chiefs see it as another regressive levy that adds unfairly to the burden of the poor and the lower middle class. But whatever happens...
Prosperity, however, has been accompanied by the paradoxical growing pains that so often affect industrializing nations. The country is suffering from high unemployment (an estimated 1,000,000 are jobless in the East Central state alone). Most basic services -roads, telephones, water and power -are in chaos and disrepair; the luxurious Ikoyi Hotel outside of Lagos, for instance, is often waterless for days at a time. Goods rot on their way to market because of highway snarls, and according to a recent survey, the chances of completing a telephone call in Lagos are only...
...expand abroad could prove to be a golden boon for the corporation. But there is a nagging irony. Partly because of the trustbusters, ITT now has lively plans for increasing its growth in Europe just when the U.S. is struggling to expand its economy and cut its burdensome jobless rate...