Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing to a critical point," said the President of the U.S. when he was asked at his news conference last week whether he would press for an immediate tax cut. As Ike and questioners well knew, the March unemployment figures (see BUSINESS) showed a 25,000 rise in the jobless to a 17-year high of 5,198,000. At the same time, the number of people working rose by 323,000 to 62,311,000, which was only 2.4% below March 1957's 63,865,000 all-time high for the month...
WITH the auto industry braked down, Detroit is the U.S.'s most recession-ridden big city (metropolitan pop. 3,650,000). Across the nation unemployment averages 6.7% of the labor force; in Detroit the figure comes to 15.1%. Some 230,000 Detroiters are jobless, and 40,000 of them have run out of unemployment benefits, with the low-seniority, generally unskilled Negroes getting the worst of it. The monthly relief bill runs to $740,000, triple the year-ago outlay. Unemployed workers in debt for cars, furniture and appliances usually find that stores and finance companies are willing...
Then the legislature will have to strike down migration bars. Even high federation officials must put up with far more red tape than U.S. tourists in traveling from island to island. The hordes of jobless in Jamaica and smaller islands cannot go to prosperous Trinidad to work. At the end of a five-year preparation period, the representatives will establish interisland-travel freedom...
Ready to Encourage. The human problem nagging the President most is that of jobless workers at the end of their unemployment-compensation benefits, which differ widely from state to state, ranging from a 16-week time limit in Florida to 30 weeks in Pennsylvania. It was in an effort to ease the plight of such workers that President Eisenhower invited the governors' committee to the White House, presented a plan under which the states could draw federal funds to extend unemployment compensation for 13 weeks. Although the new plan included a complex formula aimed at maintaining the delicate balance...
...federation will have integrated armed forces and a unified diplomatic service (though Iraq and Jordan will keep their separate seats in the United Nations). There will be the right of free movement between the two countries for all citizens (including Jordan's jobless Palestinian refugees). Iraq, which has already begun supplying oil and mutton...