Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what they feel is their due. A group of 15 black leaders met in New York to blast the Administration for "callous neglect" of urban black problems. Bolstering their complaint was a Labor Department report that summertime unemployment among black youths had reached 34.8%-an all-time high; the jobless rate for white youths, meanwhile, stood at 12.6%. George Meany echoed the blacks' complaint by rebuking Carter for putting a balanced budget ahead of a full-employment program. "If we do [balance the budget], all our problems will be over," scoffed Meany, his zest for combat undimmed...
...defensive, Mischa has stepped up "Lothario" operations, whereby handsome agents lure lonely Bonn government secretaries into bed and, ultimately, into East German service. He also takes advantage of West German unemployment by trying to recruit jobless people who might one day become useful sources. Thousands of unemployed computer technicians, data analysts, engineers and journalists have been offered jobs in innocuous-sounding "research" firms that turned out to be East German intelligence-gathering fronts. Many of the job seekers patriotically report the ploy. In a classic counterintelligence maneuver, some of Mischa's supposed recruits may have been "turned" into double...
...Michael Dukakis thinks he may have a more precisely tailored solution. Having already cut off welfare payments for childless adults capable of holding jobs, Dukakis last week revealed details of a "work experience program" for men with families. Beginning in September, some 2,000 Massachusetts fathers who have been jobless for two years will have to work for a government or nonprofit agency for three days a week, 96 hours a month. The penalty for refusal: denial of the father's share of checks issued under the classification of "aid to families with dependent children." the costliest category...
...find jobs, either through state agencies or the federal work incentive program. Workfare confronts one legal hazard that could destroy it: Congress has enacted a law that bars the use of federal welfare funds as salaries, and the U.S. Government matches the state's $11 million contribution for jobless fathers of needy families. Dukakis' aides have discovered, however, that authorities in Utah have been getting around this problem for three years with a "work experience and training project." The Utah plan, covering approximately 475 welfare recipients at a time, pays no wages as such. But it does provide...
...Dublin college, was a star television performer and joined the Cosgrave Cabinet in 1973. Although Keating is a member of the left-leaning Labor Party, his youthful radical ideology has been replaced by a pragmatic view: only heavy foreign private investment can ameliorate the country's unemployment. The jobless rate is now about 13%, and some 30,000 youths leaving school this summer will join the ranks, plus farm-laboring families that are being displaced by more efficient agriculture. No wonder the electorate is seething with dissatisfaction...