Word: joblessness
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...masseuse in a public bathhouse earning $60 a month. Her fate isn't unusual. A weightlifting coach explained to the Beijing News that Zou wasn't the only retired weightlifter struggling with the real world. "Zou's national medals are worthless. There are world champions who end up jobless after retirement...
...engineering to loosen some of its infamous rigidities. The government has cut corporate taxes and reduced the burden of some nonwage costs on business, such as pensions and health care. It has shaken up its labor market, which has led to a drop in unemployment (although the proportion of jobless, at 8.8%, is still well above the European average). The move to ever shorter working hours that culminated in the 35-hour week in the late 1980s has been reversed; millions of Germans have been working longer in the past two to three years without increased pay. The latest...
...majority of the Class of 2007 plans to enter the workforce come graduation, though a third of seniors who plan on working next year still do not have a job lined up, according to The Crimson’s poll of graduates. Though it may be little consolation to jobless seniors, the graduate unemployment rate suggested by The Crimson’s poll seems to be lower than those reported at Harvard’s peer institutions in recent years. In a report on its Class of 2006 seniors, Princeton reported a 48 percent jobless rate among graduates heading into...
...dissent was mostly expressed either in the arts (Jean Cocteau, Fritz Lang, Aldous Huxley) or in outright decadence (at the haunts of London's good-time toffs, say, or at just about any club in Berlin). But caught up in a renewed spiral to war, youths, many of them jobless, were soon being courted by political groups on the left and right. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the Wandervogel, a popular, free-spirited, back-to-nature youth movement whose nonpolitical ideals had survived World War I, found itself hijacked in the '30s by the Hitler Youth...
...central issue: immigration. In the 1960s and '70s, Saint-Gilles's agricultural sector recruited armies of foreign workers until the growth boom went bust in the early 1980s. Jobs here and across France have been in short supply ever since. Nearly 20% of Saint-Gilles's residents are jobless, and practically all of those live on state assistance. Roughly 25% of the town's population of nearly 12,000 are immigrant or first-generation French citizens--virtually all of North African origin. Most live in the Sabatot housing projects uphill from the town's center and are frequently reviled...