Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After more than two years of recovery from the nation's worst postwar recession, lines at unemployment offices remain distressingly long, jobless youths cluster aimlessly on ghetto street corners, and politicians and economists continue to fret about the need to put more Americans to work. For Jimmy Carter, who campaigned on a platform dedicated to slashing unemployment, the persistently high rate of joblessness has become a critical challenge. Like his recent predecessors, Carter has yet to find the answer-if indeed one exists-for substantially reducing unemployment without setting off a new burst of devastating inflation...
Does a 4% unemployment goal make sense? Though the economy has been generating new jobs at a fairly brisk clip-some 200,000 a month, bringing total employment to an alltime high-the jobless rate has been stuck at about 7% since April. The statistics say that today, 6.9 million Americans are looking for work, a number usually associated with deep recession rather than steady growth. But the scary overall figures mask conditions that are both better and worse than they seem. On the plus side, the unemployment rate for all whites is 6.1%. Among white adult males the rate...
...while in the making. After Kennedy was assassinated, Salinger lost election to a Senate seat from California; bounced around a few uncongenial executive suites in the U.S., England and France; and helped manage George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. After that debacle, he fled to France, jobless. Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber immediately hired him for L'Express in 1973, shortly before the Watergate story broke. Salinger's ability to make that long and intricate crisis comprehensible to a nation of Cartesians won him a wide following. Says Salinger: "It was the start of a whole...
...revised version authorizes the President to scrap the 4% jobless target if necessary to keep inflation from rising rapidly-a signal to wary businessmen that the Administration is serious about holding prices down...
Many Indians grow up on the reservation and don't leave until they have reached adulthood. Even today, many Indians go to the city for work without a high school diploma or job skills. Split away from their homes and friends, some jobless and poor, in a strange land, many Indians become alienated and withdraw into bars and never come out. Saunders says most Indians who trek to the city eventually return to the reservation to live. Grace Roderick traveled around the country for many years while her husband was in the service, building a family from Seattle to Virginia...