Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing population and unemployment of the Third World countries are propelling people to a better life in the U.S. Some 80% of the illegal aliens now living in America came from Mexico, where the population is growing at the rate of 3.5% a year, the jobless rate approaches 40%, and a man lucky enough to find work may be paid $1 a day. Small wonder that close to 10% of all Mexicans actually reside in the U.S., and Los Angeles has the third largest concentration of Mexicans (after Mexico City and Guadalajara...
...Create a National Youth Conservation Corps, an updated version of the CCC. It would employ jobless Americans under age 24 in cleaning up the national and state parks and forests. It would spend $350 million over the next year and a half, creating 35,000 new jobs...
DURING THE DEPRESSION years of the 1930s, the Federal Works Progress Administration began the Federal Theatre Project to afford employment to thousands of jobless actors and actresses. The Federal Theatre featured a variety of programs meant to appeal to a wider spectrum of the public--to strengthen the flagging theatre industry by encouraging more theatre-goers. In addition to the then-standard productions of vaudeville shows, children's theatre and the classics, new experimental forms were explored...
...change, economists got a pleasant surprise last week. They had been bracing themselves for a February unemployment rate of 8% or higher, since the Government collected its jobless figures in mid-month, when layoffs forced by cold weather and energy shortages were at their peak. Instead, the jobless rate was 7.5%, only slightly higher than 7.3% in January-a powerful indication that the economic recovery retained its underlying strength through the bitter winter. About 225,000 workers were laid off in February because of the cold, and another 220,000 were forced onto short weeks. Still, the number of people...
Using the license available to a lame-duck Administration, the Ford CEA report acknowledged a politically touchy and therefore long-ignored reality: "full employment" no longer means a jobless rate of 4%, the level generally accepted in the '50s and early '60s. The Ford report pegs it at 4.9%. Many economists suggest that it should be even higher, perhaps as much...