Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central cities. As big industry moved out of the cities in the 1970s, the job market in the inner city increasingly consisted of service-sector jobs which required higher levels of education. With fewer unskilled and semi-skilled jobs available, joblessness among young Black males rose sharply while labor-force participation rates declined steadily, to the point where joblessness "has reached catastrophic proportions...
Race-specific policies such as afirmative action or training programs are not to be abandoned, but are to be incorporated into a universal program of economic reform, designed to benefit all segments of society. Specifically, Wilson suggests a "macroeconomic policy designed to promote both economic growth and a tight labor market" combined with fiscal and monetary policies designed to curb inflation. A tight labor market would raise wages and aid the truly disadvantaged disproportionately, as increased labor force participation rates for both Black men and Black women would go far in stabilizing underclass family and community structure...
...place on Capitol Hill where most employees are black is the House folding room. Workers there complain that they are sometimes forced to labor 70-hour weeks under sweatshop conditions. A House committee found that the dingy basement room has poor air circulation and that it exposes workers to noxious fumes...
...clearest indication that the economy might be expanding too quickly came two weeks ago, when the Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate fell from 5.6% in March to 5.4% in April, its lowest level in 14 years. While the drop was good news to anyone looking for work, many economists were alarmed because they believe that unemployment can fall only so far before inflation starts to accelerate. While no one knows precisely where this "trigger point" is, many economists think it is now no lower than 5.5%. During the Carter Administration, inflation accelerated sharply when unemployment dipped below...
...military planners saw the Denmark imbroglio as an example of the oft-heard U.S. charge that several prosperous alliance members are "getting a free ride" on defense. As in Denmark, opposition parties elsewhere have threatened to overturn longstanding defense arrangements if they are voted into power. The British Labor Party and the West German Social Democrats, for example, oppose U.S. nuclear weapons on their territory...