Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Smetses and Allens aren't alone. With jobless rates still at recession levels, unemployed workers from Delaware to Oregon are easy pickings for employment agencies requiring initial fees of $188 to $295 -- and some more than $1,000 -- for access to the "hidden market" of overseas jobs. Many are mere resume services, mailing stacks of unsolicited resumes from their "clients" to companies, often with no openings. Others offer listings available in any public library. In one case, a company promising jobs in Australia collected $164.95 from customers who got a 1989 booklet on jobs, want ads from a Sydney newspaper...
...Herzegovina "Province No. 1." The cold, hungry people who live there call it the Bihac Pocket. Surrounded by Serb- ( controlled territory, the 300,000 inhabitants -- mostly Muslims -- have survived seven months of isolation and almost nightly bombardment from Serb guns. Homes have no electricity, schools are closed, and jobless workers peddle smuggled cigarettes. Thousands in the region would have starved by now except for the sporadic arrival of humanitarian-aid shipments...
...houses gained 6.3%; worker productivity, or output per man-hour, leaped 2.7% in 1992 for the biggest gain in 20 years. In spite of continuing layoffs at some of the country's largest employers, even the job market looks suddenly brighter. The months of what has ironically been termed "jobless prosperity" may be ending: unemployment in January fell to 7.1% of the civilian labor force, down from 7.3% the month before and the lowest figure in exactly a year...
...liquor store, one of the first businesses looted in the Los Angeles riots, the Asian-American owner keeps a watchful eye on the angry and jobless men loitering outside. The same surly crowd frightens Goldie Bell, 65, a beautician who is black and lives nearby. The vagrants' noisy carousing causes Bell sleepless nights, and every morning she must run a gauntlet past them to get to her car. "I'm just afraid all the time," she says...
...room home belies his desperate straits, the disintegration of Kinshasa means that for long periods his family must subsist on one meal every two days. Mutongi is actually one of the lucky ones, since, after six months of unemployment, he found work as an accountant. Even so, with the jobless rate at 80%, he must support out-of-work relatives on a tiny salary that is constantly eroded by an annual hyperinflation rate of more than 3,000%. "If things do not change, we will die," says Mutongi with quiet resignation...