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...line with the program's cooperative philosophy, Government agencies help find the jobless, then subsidize industry for some of the special costs in hiring, training and keeping them on the job. Industry's contribution is to put them in useful, productive jobs, and if possible to keep them there. There are now 61,000 at work for 12,000 firms at a total cost of $61 million to the Federal Government and some $120 million to the participating firms...
...more than a decade of living beyond its means, the country skidded into a deep recession in 1965 when Premier Levi Eshkol's anti-inflationary slowdown proved too abrupt. Unemployment jumped to 10%, and the government for the first time in its history was forced to put the jobless on the dole...
...pinball parlor, whose dime machines produced a much lower return, than high-markup drugs. Hard times have hit Fairmico, a boxmaking company formed last April in Washington, D.C. Owned by Fairchild Hiller and a local Negro community group, it is Negro-managed and hires only the hard-core jobless. Absenteeism has run high, and some drug addicts have taken injections right on the factory floor. But, despite such .problems, many other new enterprises are doing surprisingly well...
...eked out his income playing in nightclubs. In the Navy he almost lost his right index finger when a gun breech slammed shut on it. In New York, where he studied classics at Juilliard and jazz with Teddy Wilson and Lennie Tristano, he and his wife existed for seven jobless months on spaghetti-even after Williams had won on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts by banging out a symphonic arrangement of I Got Rhythm...
Teen-age unemployment weighs most heavily on the ghettos. The jobless rate for all nonwhite workers rose from 6.4% to 7.2% last month, largely reflecting the rise in Negro teen-age joblessness, which, at 30%, is double the rate for white youths...