Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talk endlessly about the center. The community set us up, in a way. As the needs evidenced themselves, we developed programs to try to meet those needs. Our employment office was a response to the fact that there's 12% jobless in Sunset Park, 4% higher than the rest of the city. You were kidding Geraldine about our building an empire here. Well, we did. We started with a dozen staff, and we never dreamed we'd grow as big as we are. But the needs are so various and complicated. Last week I did a preliminary interview with...
...most questionable recommendations: a call for reduction of the U.S. unemployment rate, which now stands at 7.1%, to the 3% to 4% range. Many economists argued that such a goal was unrealistic and that Government efforts to reach it would fan inflation. While the new draft deems the current jobless rate "morally unacceptable" and calls for expanded Government programs, including greater retraining efforts, the bishops no longer set an unemployment target...
...grew at an annual rate of only 1.2% in the first half of this year. Housing starts are falling, and industrial production is virtually stagnant. One sign that growth may be reviving, however, is a recent dip in unemployment. After being stuck at 7.3% for six months, the jobless rate dropped to 7% in August. The fall in black teenage unemployment, from about 40% to 35%, was particularly encouraging. Much of the improvement, though, came because many teenagers left the labor force at the end of the summer to go back to school...
...March. Of more than 8.4 million Americans out of work, white 16- to 19-year-olds account for 1 million and ^ black youths for 360,000. But while the ranks of unemployed white youths are large, they have a relatively better chance of finding work. The white youth jobless rate in April was 14.9%, compared with 39% for black teenagers...
...about the state of U.S. research funding in general than it does about their ethical standards. Simply stated, the neglect of facilities due to a lack of federal support is bringing man, research instruction to their know. Returning to the original analogy, some university administrators may feel like the jobless citizen who abandon the accepted means of securing food for his family. An appeal to Congress may in fact be a lesser evil than allowing their research facilities to erode...