Word: joblessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jobless benefits have come back to haunt George Bush -- and this time the President may find himself unable to worm away from the issue. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would provide up to 20 extra weeks of unemployment compensation to the 2 million people who have run out of unemployment benefits since Jan. 1. Bush signed a similar bill last month, but it never became law because he refused to declare the budget emergency that was necessary for the measure to take effect...
...island nation of Papua New Guinea, in the Coral Sea, jobless people returning to highland villages from the cities often lack the most rudimentary knowledge necessary to survive, such as which rot-resistant trees to use to build huts or which poisonous woods to avoid when making fires for cooking. Many of the youths, alienated from their villages by schooling and exposure to the West, become marauding "rascals," who have made Papua New Guinea's cities among the most dangerous in the world...
...many people are unemployed? According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the latest "official" rate of unemployment is 6.8% -- meaning that nearly 9 million of the civilian work force of 125 million are jobless. But the numbers don't come close to telling the whole story...
...work is twice the official estimate. Most economists urge the Labor Department to beef up its reporting methods to improve its count of discouraged workers. Says former U.A.W. leader Douglas Fraser, now a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University in Detroit: "By undercounting the unemployed, the jobless problem is being disguised...
...Jobless, stateless, without access to Kuwait's welfare system and with rent and other bills to pay, "how are those of us without protected employment to live?" asks Ali of the Plaza Hotel. "Obviously we are being forced to leave." But even leaving is difficult. Approximately 30,000 Palestinians hold Egyptian travel documents, but Cairo is less than eager to take them. Jordan is the only available haven, but Saudi Arabia has refused overland transit to Amman, Iraq has allowed it only sporadically, and the only other way out, by air, is costly. The result is a general milling about...