Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cries Sasser, a lawyer and former state Democratic chairman who grew up on a Tennessee farm, "How can a millionaire know the plight of the poor, the uneducated, the jobless, the sick?" His adroit use of sarcasm against the low-keyed Brock has been withering. When the Republican tried to link Sasser to minor scandals in the Democratic state administration, Sasser smiled: "I didn't know William E. Brock the Third was running for Governor." At a joint appearance, Brock declared he intended to run on his record. Quipped Sasser: "That's the best news...
...rate showed a slight improvement; it edged down to 7.8% in September, from 7.9% in August. But while the level of unemployment among women, young people and blacks declined slightly, the rate for household heads, the backbone of the labor force, rose from 5.2% to 5.4%. Thus the last jobless figure to appear before the Nov. 2 election shows that 7.4 million Americans are still unemployed-a statistic that is certain to cause Ford trouble...
Despite the vitriol, the candidates had few disagreements of substance. Indeed, whichever Helmut won, it seemed there would be no fundamental change in West Germany's domestic or foreign policy. Both promised to lower unemployment (current jobless rate: 3.9%), raise pensions, maintain but not significantly expand other social services, crack down on terrorists, pursue detente with East Germany on more of a quid pro quo basis, continue close ties with the U.S., and lobby in other West European capitals for a stronger NATO. Their only substantive difference was over the issue of corporate-tax cuts, which Kohl favored...
...Democrats on the board question whether slow is beautiful. They are worried by what they see as a waste of the nation's resources-the jobless people and the factories working at an average of about 73% of capacity. To correct the situation, they expect Jimmy Carter to follow the conventional Democratic policies spelled out in his position papers and in last week's televised debate: more stimulation of the economy, easier money, tax cuts through tax reform (TIME, June...
Some employers hire part-time workers and pay them "off the books," usually in greenbacks taken from the petty-cash drawer. The employer gets the advantage of cheap labor; the workers draw both clandestine wages and jobless benefits. Harold Kasper, who directs New York State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat...