Word: joblessness
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...Separation. In 1919 the doughboy got the money due him and a railroad ticket home. What happened after that was his lookout. What happens after this war will also be his lookout but the Army is going to give him a better start. Last time, the jobless were back, demanding help. This time the Government hopes that it will not have to call out the cops to disperse "betrayed" veterans...
...Congress disagreed most violently on the two questions the U.S. people wanted cleared up first: How much unemployment pay should a war worker expect when cutbacks and contract cancellations leave him jobless? Who should pay him-the states or the Federal Government...
...bill's controversial core was a proposal for complete federalization of unemployment pay. It included a table of payments which ran up to $35 a week. Republicans cried: "Another WPA!" West Virginia's Senator Chapman Revercomb charged that workers in some brackets would get more pay when jobless than when employed. Eyeing the $35 top rates for workers made jobless by peace, he asked a troublesome political question: How could the U.S. pay only $20 a week to returned soldiers...
...swank establishments like Manhattan's Stork Club were self-consciously unaffected, the real or fancied complaints of what the month-old tax was doing to the nation's cabarets last week swelled louder than a chorus of hot brasses. The American Guild of Variety Artists estimated that jobless entertainers would soon number 15,000. No one expected Washington to lose much sleep over this; the War Manpower Commission has been trying for months to force such nonessential workers into war plants...
...barometer based on a disinterested monthly count of the unemployed or the rate of spending for consumer goods. Whenever the number of jobless rises above a set standard, or the rate of spending falls below, priming would start...