Word: joblessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scarcity of gasoline that kept many shoppers out of the stores. Yet there is no reason to look for an especially deep recession in the year ahead." Less optimistic is Robert Nathan, another member of the TIME board. He foresees a slump that could last six quarters and a jobless rate that could hit close...
...remaining jobless. Notes Feldstein: "Government policy has not only failed to eliminate the problems that it was designed to solve, but has also frequently exacerbated those very problems...
While the President was at Camp David, his economic advisers made it official: the U.S. is in an inflationary recession. National output, they predicted, will shrink 0.5% this year; prices nonetheless will climb 10.6%, and the number of jobless may grow by 1.3 million, to around 7 million late next year. The inflation is being fanned and the recession worsened by large OPEC oil price boosts that underscore the debilitating U.S. dependence on imported petroleum. Carter was earnestly aware, if the people of the U.S. were not yet, that the nation must find some way to start breaking that dependence...
...Jobless may rise by 1.4 million...
...expected, the incidence of violence is highest among the urban poor (many of them minorities), blue-collar workers, people under 30 or without religious affiliation, families with a husband who is jobless and those with four to six children. But the study also showed that violence occurs among affluent families as well. Indeed, the wife of a university president (not New Hampshire) once quietly called Straus to ask what she could do about her husband, who was beating her; Straus suggested marriage counseling...