Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some municipalities have tried to drive out their homeless. In Phoenix, a Sunbelt mecca for jobless Northerners, the city in the past two years has closed three soup kitchens and torn down ten welfare hotels. The city still has 3,000 street people. In Santa Cruz, Calif., last summer, there were 19 attacks on homeless people, known locally as trolls because they live under bridges. Many of the assaults were attributed to teen-agers, some of whom later sported TROLL BUSTER T shirts...
...government to negotiate a contract that would have resulted primarily in greater flexibility in hiring requirements as part of a program to ease increasing unemployment. After six months of talks, a proposed agreement was rejected by the union rank and file. As a result, Chevalier expects the jobless rate to rise from 8% to 10% by the end of the year. Said Chevalier: "Maybe France is a country where the capacity to adapt is weaker because every agreement must be negotiated at the highest level and then be applied by everybody, rather than operating on a case-by-case basis...
...winning the war with a continual barrage of propaganda and positive signals. We are told that a ruthlessly competitive economic system based on private ownership is not only practical but moral. And we believe it, even when the Catholic church declares mainstream capitalism unethical and when millions go jobless and unproductive and huge subsidies go to farmers for not growing food despite epidemic famine in poorer areas of the world...
...invasion of Grenada brought a surge of new enlistments in ROTC programs. The quality of military recruits is improving substantially. The motives for entering the service are not just economic now (the Army as a last resort for jobless youth). They are also patriotic. In his letter of application to West Point, a high school student from Florida wrote, "I will relish having the chance to serve my country in a position in which I can exert a positive influence...
...China's growth rate would ease from 9.5% this year to 7.5% in 1985. The new flexible pricing system may cause inflation to rise from 1.5% to 5%. In addition, efforts by enterprises to trim their work forces and become more productive could raise unemployment. Though the official jobless rate is only 3%, Chen estimated that about 15% of the population is "underemployed" at part-time and make-work jobs...