Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bellboy-B.A. phenomenon should surprise no one at a time when countless corporations continue to downsize. According to a Labor Department study released last year, 30% of each new crop of graduates between now and 2005 will march straight into the ranks of the jobless or the underemployed. That would represent a hefty -- and dispiriting -- increase over the 1984-90 period, when an average of 20% of each graduating class promptly became "underutilized...
...DEPARTMENT OF LABOR is considering a policy change in the way government helps the jobless. Because more unemployed people are finding that they need to relocate to get work, Labor Secretary Robert Reich may request extra unemployment assistance to help pay for some of the costs involved in job searches that require long-distance travel...
...Federal Reserve Board chairman, told a House subcommittee he was disappointed that it "has at best stabilized, rather than easing" in the face of a 7% unemployment rate. Greenspan was hopeful on the economy, however, predicting growth of 2.5% for the year and a drop of 0.25% in the jobless rate by year's end. Greenspan also disclosed last week that the Fed is moving away from more than 15 years of reliance upon monetarism -- the attempt to guide economic growth by adjusting the money supply -- in favor of its former reliance on adjustments in interest rates. He said that...
...flood of the world's "homeless, tempest-tost." Bette Hammond, spokeswoman for a California group calling itself STOP IT -- for Stop the Out-of-Control Problems of Immigration Today -- suggests a rewrite of Lazarus: "If the Statue of Liberty could speak, she would say, 'Many of my people are jobless and homeless. My natural resources are fast disappearing from overcrowding and pollution, while my cities are full of crime. My domestic tranquillity is a thing of the past...
...Hillary Clinton, OFFICIALLY JOBLESS...