Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprise victories in New York and Connecticut, was clearly worried as polls showed Carter slipping badly from his top-heavy lead of a few weeks earlier. They also showed a huge number of voters undecided. In addition to the frustration over the hostages in Iran, economic troubles loomed large. Jobless contruction contractors turned up at a Rosalynn Carter motorcade through Green Bay to wave signs that read WILL I EVER AFFORD A HOME? and SEND JIMMY BACK TO THE NUT FARM...
...cautious leadership, and a senior government official concedes: "We have lost momentum." The once thriving Spanish economy has slowed painfully. Unemployment, already over 10%, has been swollen by hundreds of thousands of migrant workers forced home by industrial cutbacks elsewhere on the Continent. Fully half a million of the jobless are young first-job seekers, a group that is prone to political exploitation. Though inflation has been halved in the past two years to about 15%, investments have been drying up because diminishing confidence in the future-combined with the Spanish oligarchy's traditional fear of socialism-has prompted...
Carter's 1981 "recession" budget will push the national unemployment rate up to about 8 per cent. According to the Congressional Budget Office, nearly one out of four black Americans will be jobless. These blacks constitute the "disadvantaged" and "long-term unemployed" of America's cities. Yet somehow Carter has taken away their jobs, not put them to work. The president has also promised to "provide fiscal relief to the most hard pressed communities," to fund neighborhood organizations, to "provide additional social and health services to the disadvantaged people in cities" and to "improve the urban physical environment"--more...
...around $100 million more to the country's monthly fuel bill of $150 million. State-run factories will be forced to choose between raising prices sky high or laying off thousands of workers-at a time when unemployment is already running at 20%. The discontent of the jobless can only add to the tensions that have made political violence a way of life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists...
Unemployment. By year's end the number of jobless is expected to climb by 1.5 million to almost 8 million, or 7.5% of the labor force, the highest level since February 1977. The rise is already under way: the Government reported last week that unemployment, which had been in the 5.9% range for 17 months, jumped in January...