Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mondale spoke about the poor and jobless, and Bush, in pitch with a widespread mood, called him "the Great Depressor...
...bill's sponsors, Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California, accused Reagan of insensitivity. Said he: "The President has demonstrated how unresponsive he is to the willingness and eagerness of jobless young people to perform useful work." Countered White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater: "The recovery has been creating more jobs in one month than this entire program would ever create...
...spurt helped reduce the deficit to an estimated $174.3 billion in fiscal 1984, from a record $195.4 billion in 1983. Most economists, though, fear that deficit spending has fueled a false prosperity that will soon fade. Already, progress against unemployment shows signs of coming to a halt. The civilian jobless rate declined slightly in September, from 7.5% to 7.4%, but that was still higher than the 7.1% recorded in June...
...this ancient metropolis has grown to about 17 million people, and it is in the process of surpassing Tokyo as the largest city of the world.* But that growth, which might once have been a point of pride, is a curse. It consists in large part of jobless peasants streaming in from the countryside at a rate of about...
...will fall even further, to 5.5% in 1985. Businessmen are once again investing, encouraged by incentive measures from a government that has rediscovered the virtues of the private enterprise system. Like its neighbors, France is exporting more. But, again, in France unemployment remains a problem. The number of jobless will reach 2.5 million this year, or 10% of the work force, and rise...