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...cutbacks in public spending. The program is due to be presented to an IMF delegation this month. But while such moves may be needed to ensure continued IMF funding, they could also aggravate tensions in a nation that is currently suffering from two years of economic stagnation. In April jobless workers rioted for three days in the country's largest city, São Paulo (pop. 11 million...
Despite these difficulties in Washington, Reagan in currently trumpeting victory in his economic war as inflation has subsided and the unemployment rate has leveled off. But the current respite promises to be only temporary; the Guinness-proportion budget deficits insure that as the jobless rate creeps back down to a respectable level, the consumer price index will once again skyrocket...
...spending program, leave the European Community and expel U.S. nuclear weapons from Britain. But so far Labor's crusade has been ineffectual, especially over unemployment, which stands at a postwar high of 13.6%. According to one poll, even voters between 18 and 21, who suffer an especially high jobless rate, plan to vote Tory rather than Labor by nearly 3 to 2, apparently because they feel the jobs crisis is not Thatcher's fault...
...each stop last week, Foot and other Labor officials hammered away at their only potent issue: the Thatcher record on unemployment. The party's first ten-minute televised campaign message effectively focused on the plight of young jobless workers. The centerpiece of the Labor campaign is a five-year crash program to create 2.5 million new jobs, mainly by diverting some $17 billion now spent on unemployment benefits and tax-revenue losses. Other savings, according to the Labor platform, would come from scrapping the Thatcher government's planned $15 billion Trident missile program...
Despite economic gains, Jamaica still has an unemployment rate hovering around 27 percent, according to Seaga. In order to combat the jobless problem. Seaga said he has enacted a large scale program aimed at training 10,000 youths each year in vocational schools and camps...