Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response Riegle--whose state suffers from a 16 percent jobless rate--said, "The course needs to be changed." and the Democrats know...
...itself, a 10% rate would not be significantly higher than the 9.8% jobless rate for July and August. But double-digit unemployment could have important psychological consequences, since it would focus attention on the Democrats' most promising issue. In California, for example, 42% of the people responding to a recent poll named unemployment as the top concern in this fall's election; crime was a distant second at 22%. The Democratic state committee is distributing a newsletter labeled the "Reagan Recession Watch" to every Democrat running for any kind of office in California and to 60,000 party...
...that the unemployment rate would hit 10 percent by the 1982 elections Yesterday, however, the Labor Department made a prophet out of the white-maned House Speaker by announcing that 10.1 percent of the American work force can't find a job. But whether the news of the highest jobless rate in 42 years will make electoral monkeys out of President Reagan and his fellow Republicans is another matter altogether...
Palme won the support of Swedish voters by exploiting growing fears of unemployment. Even though the official jobless rate stands at only 3.7%, Palme contended that it was "moving toward 4% or 5%, a tiny rate in many countries, but one that Swedes won't stand for." In Norrbotten, the region with the highest official unemployment rate in the country (8.5%), the Social Democrats won nearly two-thirds of the vote. Palme also castigated the center-liberal government's program of welfare cuts designed to slow down growing deficits, which contribute to giving Swedes the world...
...reasons for black disaffection are easy to discern. For one thing, blacks have suffered badly during the current economic slump. Their jobless rate of 18.8% is almost double the general level. The Reagan Administration's conservative rhetoric, combined with its assaults on Big Government, activist courts and social welfare programs, have been interpreted by blacks as covert attempts to undermine the hard-won gains of the civil rights movement. Reviewing the record of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since Reagan took office, a bipartisan task force of Washington lawyers charged last week that "the Administration...