Word: joblessness
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...Quarter and the sparkling new downtown hotels, New Orleans faces some of the worst urban problems of any U.S. city. With the local economy gripped by a decade-long recession, big industry is disappearing; the river port is languishing; schools are crumbling; the tax base is shrinking; the regional jobless rate stands at 6.8%. Drugs and crime run rampant in many neighborhoods, and the murder rate is among the nation's highest. "The jails are jam-packed; courts are jam-packed," says Mayor Sidney Barthelemy. "The police no longer have time to handle the minor calls. They...
...fact, the tax cut will only benefit the wealthiest three percent of the country and would do nothing to help the 17 million jobless Americans. The supply-side economics that Bush preaches, as Presidential candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says, belongs in the "trash bin of history, along with communism." Both economic doctrines, which purport to help everyone, serve only a select sliver of society; the rest suffer...
...Thomas from the Education Department to the EEOC. At that point, Hill said, she thought "the sexual overtures which had so troubled me had ended." Besides, she noted, there was talk that President Reagan was thinking of phasing out the Education Department, and she feared she might wind up jobless...
Even so, Bush has vowed to veto a bill passed by Congress last week to help those for whom the times are toughest: an estimated 2.4 million unemployed workers who have exhausted their jobless benefits. Bush views the price tag as too high -- $6.4 billion to extend benefits for up to 20 weeks -- and contends the measure would bust the five-year budget agreement that the Administration and Congress reached last fall. The jobless-benefits bill has enough votes to override a veto in the House, but probably not in the Senate...
...Jobless benefits have come back to haunt George Bush -- and this time the President may find himself unable to worm away from the issue. Last week the House of Representatives passed a bill that would provide up to 20 extra weeks of unemployment compensation to the 2 million people who have run out of unemployment benefits since Jan. 1. Bush signed a similar bill last month, but it never became law because he refused to declare the budget emergency that was necessary for the measure to take effect...