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...UNEMPLOYMENT: The problem is serious-the unemployment rate in June rose from 5.1% to 5.3%-but it is not as bad as the figures indicate. In its overly broad definition of "unemployment," the Government counts among the jobless such people as fulltime students looking for part-time work, and the job-seeking wives and children of laid-off workers. What if other countries did the same? Sweden, celebrated land of low unemployment, not long ago adopted the U.S. system; to their chagrin, the Swedes soon found that their national unemployment rate was four times higher than under their old, looser...
...employment plunged from 14,000 to 1,750; young people began leaving town at the rate of a thousand a year. In Hazleton it became the rule rather than the exception for wives to plod off to work at sewing machines in the textile and garment plants while listless, jobless husbands stayed home to keep house...
...Jump! Jump! screamed onlookers as a troubled youth threatened to leap from a twelfth-story hotel ledge in Albany, N.Y. "Jump! Jump! cried another mob last week as a jobless man set to dive off Manhattan's Brooklyn Bridge. Both would-be suicides were eventually talked down to safety, but not before hundreds of witnesses gaily exchanged bets on their fate whilte yowling such taunts as "What's the matter, ya yellow...
...known education department have strengthened dozens of local public schools by curriculum improvements and new teaching aids. University scientists have tackled such regional problems as water pollution, crop diversification and transportation. Even the S.I.U. symphony is a regional enterprise; half the members are students, and the other half are jobless coal miners and other amateurs...
...took the Johnsons 15 minutes to move 150 yards across the field to the school. Inside he talked to the "students"-most of them men who had been jobless since December, when the South Bend Studebaker plant closed, and who were now learning new skills in federally financed classes. Said the President to one man: "We are thinking about the day when we'll have no more unemployment. I'm mighty proud of you. Tell your children that their President sends his best regards...