Word: joblessness
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...around $100 million more to the country's monthly fuel bill of $150 million. State-run factories will be forced to choose between raising prices sky high or laying off thousands of workers-at a time when unemployment is already running at 20%. The discontent of the jobless can only add to the tensions that have made political violence a way of life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists...
Expectations were obviously too high, as Valenzi's Naples shows only too well. Despite the mayor's efforts to build employment, Naples still has the highest proportion of jobless in Italy, 84,000, or 14% of the labor force. While able-bodied men seek jobs, employers farm out work to be done illegally in household sweatshops, where women and children toil for minuscule wages without benefit of social security, labor laws or other protection...
...rise to 7.7% by the final quarter of 1980. That will be not nearly as severe as the recent peak of 9% in May 1975. Most board members agree that unemployment will hit a high around Election Day in November, which will hurt Jimmy Carter, and that the jobless rate again will start declining as the economy picks up at year's end. However, one member, Consultant David Grove, who has long been pessimistic about the job situation, predicts that the worst will come in the second half of 1981, when he sees unemployment...
...encouragement whatsoever, his own secretary is pathetically in love with him. His stepfather Pete, a fat Babbitt, has a whining neurotic on his hands in Charles' awful mother. His sister is happily in love but cannot see that her health-nut boyfriend is an ass. His jobless roommate Sam, on the other hand, is not in love, has all of the girls and sex he wants, and seems both clearheaded and blissful...
...politically more damaging statistic in France than it would be in the U.S., since French economists put full employment at about 2% jobless, compared with about...