Word: joblessness
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Similar frustrations center on Western Europe's unemployment rate, now almost 12% of a 117 million-member work force. (The U.S. rate is 7.3%.) Millions of the unemployed are under 25; many of the youthful jobless have become alienated and have dropped out of the job market completely...
...campaigned from the barrios and suburbs of Lima to the ancient plazas of Cuzco and Arequipa. Youthful (35), tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and darkly handsome, he electrified crowds with his theme that "Peru is an unrealized hope." He promised food for the hungry, jobs for the jobless and an end to diseases like tuberculosis, which is still a major cause of death among Peruvian children. Several hours after the polls closed last week, Alan García Pérez bounded onstage at his party headquarters to proclaim victory in the race for the presidency "Now the Peruvian people will change...
...that good news, however, is prompting only faint cheers from Europeans. Reason: it is a strange, jobless prosperity that so far has made no significant dent in Europe's record 19 million unemployed. It is also a lopsided recovery, still heavily dependent on exports, especially to the U.S., and therefore relying on a strong dollar and good American growth...
...gunplay, or fisticuffs against other crews in order to keep their man out of jail yet on top of the gangsta rap heap. And the biggest problem is that there is an endless supply of potential hangers-on. In New York City, nearly half of the black men are jobless, not counting those whom are incarcerated. With increasing restrictions in the job market on ex-convicts, being in a gangsta rap entourage is oftentimes the best thing going...
Once these previously jobless citizens are employed, they will spend more money on the economy, thereby spurring greater job growth and causing more hiring, ad infinitum. Thus, eliminating EPA standards would single-handedly pull the United States economy out of its slump. Of course, once the economy was growing at a fast rate, the government would be collecting more money in taxes that it could then use to either pay down its national debt or invade Iran or Syria, as our President sees...