Word: joblessness
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...moment they arrived in Detroit last week. Even in a recession year, the Goodyear billboard near the airport was totting up by the seconds the autos manufactured in 1975: 3,835,001; 3,835,002. But deeper in the city the scene turned bleak: shuttered stores, decaying neighborhoods, jobless men wandering the streets. The contrast seemed particularly telling to the travelers, who had come to the Motor City for a conference on Christian responses to the inequities in modern society. The focus of their discussions at Detroit's rambling old Sacred Heart Seminary was a radical new mode...
Indeed, the Ford Administration expects the August unemployment rate, which will be reported next week, to show at least a slight rise over July. Production just has not bounced back rapidly enough yet to reduce unemployment as swiftly as the figures have been showing; if the July jobless rate of 8.4% was a true measure, then the May peak of 9.2% probably was too high, a reflection of the difficulty of statistically accounting for students entering the job market. The decline in the unemployment rate after August is expected to be painfully slow and to remain at or near...
Even so, the upturn has come; there are definite signs that Americans are going back to work, if not in droves, then at least in trickles. Besides the drop in the jobless rate, the factory work week lengthened in July, and the number of people working rose by 676,000 to 85,078,000. During the last three months, 51% of 172 nonagricultural industries increased payrolls, v. only 14% in December, January and February...
Thus left jobless, Schiess has just marked the anniversary of her ordination by filing complaints with the New York State Division of Human Rights and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The complaints, which add a new dimension to the ongoing dispute, charge Bishop Cole with discriminating against her because of her sex. Schiess's suits contend that the secular laws permitting a church to practice discrimination in employment are meant to exclude only persons who do not share its beliefs. The ban on women as priests, which stems from centuries of tradition, is not a belief, she argues...
...joint $5.5 billion pump-priming effort ($2 billion to be spent in Germany, $3.5 billion in France). Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira has also promised further steps to stimulate demand. Yet as welcome as that news may be, it will mean little to the 15 million jobless in Europe, Japan and North America. Global unemployment, according to the OECD, will not begin to decline until mid-1976, and it may rise further before then...