Word: joblessness
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...health of an unborn child. A study in December's Journal of Health and Social Behavior reveals that as male unemployment increases, so does the incidence of low-birth-weight infants. Among pregnant women, stress is a risk factor for giving birth to such babies. The research suggests that jobless families should consider enrolling in stress-management programs where possible...
Abdul Sankoh, 27, was a teacher until last December, when fighting between government and rebel forces closed his school. Now he is jobless and lives at the Murray Town amputee center in Freetown. On the morning of April 30, after hiding from the fighting for three days in the bush without food, he and another man went back to their village to look for mangoes to take to their friends...
Battipaglia adds that "wage increases will be more than offset by productivity gains, despite the remarkably low U.S. unemployment rate--4.2% in May, matching a 29-year low--that might be expected to force pay and prices up faster. Employers will have less trouble than the jobless rate might suggest in finding the workers they need, he says, for three reasons. First, "you have had a tremendous amount of downsizing that freed up a lot of individuals who are now coming back" into the work force. Also, "second wage earners"--primarily wives and husbands--who may not have been counted...
...Minsk used to drop acid and smoke pot to help quell paranoid delusions that Boston's North End mafiosi were conspiring against him. Yes, it's crazy to take hallucinogens to soothe your hallucinations. But that's what untreated mental illness does to you. It can also leave you jobless and sleeping under the Boston University bridge. That's what happened to Minsk, anyway, in the 1970s. For years, his bipolar disorder was virtually ignored as he cycled in and out of jails, mental hospitals and community centers, none of which took the time, or had the resources, to treat...
...added that an economic downturn would bring the subjects of his study back to welfare "real quickly." Both Freeman and Wilson said they are worried that if the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, jobless rates could rise...