Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gained his reputation as crime-fighter while serving as associate special prosecutor in the Watergate investigations. After assisting Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox with the hiring of investigators, Vorenberg worked full-time on the Watergate case until the fall of 1973, when the so-called "Saturday Night Massacre" left Cox jobless. Vorenberg resigned following the Cox firing, but returned to the case on a part-time basis under Leon Jaworski. Vorenberg remained with the prosecutor's office until former President Nixon's resignation in August...
...food production is way down; last year the grain crop was a record 4.3 million tons below what was needed to feed Viet Nam's 51 million people. Unemployment is so serious that even the Hanoi daily Nhan Dan publicly laments that "hundreds of thousands of people remain jobless...
...balance, the recommendations would make unemployment rates slightly higher than now. Main reason: the commission wants to count as unemployed any discouraged worker who has sought a job within the past six months, vs. four weeks under present policy. That change, says the commission, would raise the jobless rate by two -or three-tenths of a point...
...million servicemen to be employed. They are not included in the labor force statistics now; this made sense when most servicemen were removed from the ranks of job seekers by the draft, but is outdated in the era of the volunteer Army. Including them would reduce the jobless rate...
Other recommendations would change the way jobless rates are used to guide policy. The Government last year paid out $10 billion in aid to areas that reported joblessness above the national average. But in order to figure out what their unemployment rates are, Congress forces states and cities to go through a cumbersome 70-step process; many find it impossible and submit figures that are really only guesses. The commission would instead base federal aid largely on state and local figures reported every five years by the census. The numbers would always be out of date, but at least they...