Word: joblessly
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...that figure of serious fun. The story's uncertain hero is a printer in a small Indian town who bats out jobs on an ancient press but finds his real pleasure in running a kind of literary salon whose major figures are an unpublished poet and a jobless journalist. Slam-bang into his nerveless world crashes a huge, careless taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning...
Checks from Montana. In the atmosphere of sharp contrast there is a despondency among the unemployed that arises from insecurity, boredom, a sense of failure and futility, rather than from physical hardship. Compared to the unemployed in other days or other countries, Muncie's jobless are pretty well off, cushioned from dire want by unemployment checks and other forms of social generosity...
...Labor Department's preliminary estimate of unemployment in mid-February was up some 400,000 in a month, or four times the normal seasonal rate, to a total of 5,800,000 jobless. This meant that 7% of the work force is unemployed, up from 6.6% in January. But there was one hopeful note: new claims for jobless benefits declined some 33,000 in the last reported week, indicating that the worst may be over...
...industry, the rise in unemployment to new highs last week underlined a startling paradox: all around the nation, even in such critical jobless areas as Detroit, jobs are going begging for lack of skilled workers to fill them. Industry is hard put to find enough trained craftsmen, but the problem is getting worse. For every 100 skilled workers that the nation had in 1955, it will need 122 in 1965 and 145 in 1975. Yet the nation's spotty training programs are not even turning out enough new craftsmen to replace those who retire. Automation and such new industries...
...Ohio's state employment service, says: "I've yet to see an employer's group willing to take a look at this problem and seek solutions. They refuse to recognize their responsibility. They talk about long-term trends -but nobody talks about the immediate problem of jobless, needy people...