Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the President was at Camp David, his economic advisers made it official: the U.S. is in an inflationary recession. National output, they predicted, will shrink 0.5% this year; prices nonetheless will climb 10.6%, and the number of jobless may grow by 1.3 million, to around 7 million late next year. The inflation is being fanned and the recession worsened by large OPEC oil price boosts that underscore the debilitating U.S. dependence on imported petroleum. Carter was earnestly aware, if the people of the U.S. were not yet, that the nation must find some way to start breaking that dependence...
...Jobless may rise by 1.4 million...
...expected, the incidence of violence is highest among the urban poor (many of them minorities), blue-collar workers, people under 30 or without religious affiliation, families with a husband who is jobless and those with four to six children. But the study also showed that violence occurs among affluent families as well. Indeed, the wife of a university president (not New Hampshire) once quietly called Straus to ask what she could do about her husband, who was beating her; Straus suggested marriage counseling...
...took part." Others acknowledge that there are indeed tensions between black men and women that are exacerbated by a numbers game-there are 1 million more black women than men. But they insist that the real trouble is rooted in lingering hostilities between blacks and whites: the high jobless rate among black men, the curtailment of affirmative-action programs and other manifestations of what many blacks consider a white backlash, all of which affect the black male's sense of self and thus his relationships with women...
...city hires Ellen Trask, a woman whose credentials are even more formidable than Tabor's, and with the ceremony of gunfighters, the two legal amazons go at it. Tabor wins, but neither she nor the towers are safe from predators. In the end she is pregnant and jobless, but Kluger makes sure that she is not quipless. Pondering an abortion, the expectant mother muses, "The Law is my shepherd, I shall not flaunt...