Word: joblessness
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Foreclosures on farms will leave one million workers jobless, making this the most devastativng year for farmers since the Great Depression, participants in a Harvard student-sponsored Agricultural Law Symposium said yesterday...
...surprise, 65 newly jobless parliamentarians from Marcos' New Society Movement remained unpersuaded, accusing the President of dictatorial tendencies and excoriating the new plan as a "Magna Carta of enslavement." Blas Ople, who had served as Marcos' Labor Minister for 17 years, went so far as to charge, with more than a little hyperbole, that Aquino was claiming authority "more absolute, more authoritarian and more arbitrary than the powers gobbled up by the former President...
...course a boon for the U.S., Western Europe, Japan, Brazil and other heavy consumers. Lower energy costs can boost economic growth, reduce interest rates and inflation, and create more jobs. Unemployment in the U.S., for example, is declining significantly. The Labor Department reported last week that the jobless rate fell from 6.9% in December to 6.7% last month...
Without Baby Doc's infamous corruption, the troubled Haitian economy may perk up some. But most of the Haitian workforce is still jobless, unskilled, and poor. Most deaths in Haiti still come from malnutrition and diseases that were wiped out in the developed world decades ago. Ninety percent of Haitians still can't read or write...
...down to the White House last week to talk over the year ahead on Capitol Hill, when the two principal players, President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, began sniping across the deep ideological divide between them. After the Republican President seemed to imply that some people were jobless simply because they were lazy, the Democratic Speaker exploded. He charged that Reagan's economic notions are a "bunch of baloney" that might "go over big at the country club" but not with the rest of the nation. As the two venerable Irishmen squared off, G.O.P. Senator Alan Simpson...