Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thoughts turn to those who are jobless and poor...
Your article claims that "unemployment is no longer the national trauma it once was" because of extended jobless benefits. Your mathematician should stick to math...
...agents are swarming over every outlander rumored to be in line for a Government post and trying to explain that in exclusive Georgetown, $40,000 might buy a garage but certainly not a house. Copying machines are busily grinding out resumes for 2,200 or so soon-to-be-jobless Republican appointees. And the city's social climbers are agonizing over the possibility that they may lose out in the coming scramble for status. In myriad ways, the Carters of Plains, Ga., have the capital in a tizzy...
...most disquieting was the layoff rate. Layoffs in the nation's factories increased from 1.3 for each 100 workers in August to 1.5 in September. The new figures tend to confute those (mainly Republican) economists who have argued up to now that the nation's high 7.8% jobless rate was almost exclusively a result of growth in the number of people looking for employment, rather than a consequence of employed workers losing their jobs. Among other leading indicators, new orders dipped and manufacturers cut the average work week to 39.6 hours, from 39.9 in August. The strongest element...
...campaign. Carter has urged a major change. He would replace the entire jerry-built welfare system that hands out money in a welter of ways with one making single payments. Adjusted for cost of living differences around the country, the allotments would largely end the migration of jobless families from areas with low benefits (like Mississippi) to high-paying areas (like New York City). The cities, which now carry part of the welfare burden, would no longer be required to pay anything; the bill would be divided between the Federal Government-the lion's share-and the states. Carter...