Word: joblessness
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...describe the mood of the magazine's October 18 issue. Before that, Newsweek had taken an editorial position only three times in its history on an issue facing the nation on race, on Vietnam, and on energy. Presented against the backdrop of the Reagan Administration's announcement that the jobless rate in America had reached a post-depression record 10.1 percent, last week's proposed agenda for easing unemployment marked the fourth. The results, however, are disappointing. Rather than offering a complete program for getting America back to work. Newsweek gives a conglomeration of uncoordinated proposals--mostly unimaginative, mostly...
...response Riegle--whose state suffers from a 16 percent jobless rate--said, "The course needs to be changed." and the Democrats know...
...itself, a 10% rate would not be significantly higher than the 9.8% jobless rate for July and August. But double-digit unemployment could have important psychological consequences, since it would focus attention on the Democrats' most promising issue. In California, for example, 42% of the people responding to a recent poll named unemployment as the top concern in this fall's election; crime was a distant second at 22%. The Democratic state committee is distributing a newsletter labeled the "Reagan Recession Watch" to every Democrat running for any kind of office in California and to 60,000 party...
...that the unemployment rate would hit 10 percent by the 1982 elections Yesterday, however, the Labor Department made a prophet out of the white-maned House Speaker by announcing that 10.1 percent of the American work force can't find a job. But whether the news of the highest jobless rate in 42 years will make electoral monkeys out of President Reagan and his fellow Republicans is another matter altogether...
Palme won the support of Swedish voters by exploiting growing fears of unemployment. Even though the official jobless rate stands at only 3.7%, Palme contended that it was "moving toward 4% or 5%, a tiny rate in many countries, but one that Swedes won't stand for." In Norrbotten, the region with the highest official unemployment rate in the country (8.5%), the Social Democrats won nearly two-thirds of the vote. Palme also castigated the center-liberal government's program of welfare cuts designed to slow down growing deficits, which contribute to giving Swedes the world...