Word: joblessness
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...kids then graduate to "Make Your Own World." Eleven teams with an equal vote represent farmers, jobless workers and real estate developers as well as such usually disenfranchised interests as air, forests, soil-even deer. Playing the role of master planner, the teacher affixes overlay pictures of various new projects to the magnetic game board. She reads from a card describing each project's environmental consequences-the good and the bad. An industrial park, for example, brings 1) economic prosperity, 2) a larger population that will need additional space-consuming highways, and 3) air pollution. The kids then decide...
...consumer price index was rising at an alarming rate of 7.2% a year. As a result of purposeful policies of slowdown since then, the nation's factories have been forced to pare production 5�%, and stock and bond markets have shuddered through their worst crisis in three decades. The jobless rate, which was 3.5% then, jumped last week to 5.8% as the November figures were issued?the highest monthly level since 1963. All together, 4,600,000 Americans are out of work, and 21% of the people queried in a recent Harris Poll reported that they have felt the pangs...
...ground that it would be unworkable. Nevertheless, the majority argued that, at worst, the plan would do little harm; at best, it might reduce by half a percentage point the rate of unemployment that the nation must suffer as the cost of curbing inflation. Hypothetically, a 5.5% jobless rate would do as much to slow price increases as a 6% rate under present policy...
...male graduate of Columbia College whom you describe as forlorn because his $45-a-week unemployment compensation is running out. He is forced to live with his mother in order to meet car payments, and after 100 interviews for positions in journalism, advertising or public relations, he is still jobless. I suggest he take a typing and shorthand course and seek a job as a secretary. Female college graduates have been told for decades that the way to break into business is through secretarial work. And I can personally assure the young man in your story that the sting...
...issues, especially rising unemployment, hurt some Republicans severely in congressional and gubernatorial races. Unemployment now stands at 5.6%. The President knows that the economy must do better before he faces the voters again. He has pledged by mid-1972 to restore "full employment," which his aides define as a jobless rate of about...