Word: plight
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...some of the funds to create public service jobs. House Speaker Tip O'Neill has criticized Reagan for the growing unemployment lines, but so far has not suggested a plan of his own. An aide to the Speaker may inadvertently have best summed up the Democrats' plight. "Our alternative is that the President should advocate an alternative," said the spokesman. "That's our alternative...
...been a good one for Republicans. Yet for all the White House worries about G.O.P. fortunes in the fall, it is not clear that Reagan will suffer much politically. Interviewing the jobless across the nation last week, TIME correspondents found relatively few who blamed the President for their plight. Rudy Barker, 62, was laid off in 1980 from his job at a lumber mill in Willamina, Ore., and he has not worked since then. "All this started before Reagan," he says. "It's been coming on for the last two or three Presidents." Says Samuel Ehrenhalt, Middle Atlantic regional...
Karpatkin, executive director since 1974, insists that the new ventures are vital to Consumers Union. She attributes the financial plight to the state of the economy and a postal rate increase that will cost the magazine an additional $2 million per year. Says she: "The Reagan recession hit us, and our promotion results softened in the first part of the fiscal year. The second thing was a massive postal increase...
...Detroit's plight only varies in kind from that of other ailing Northern cities. In Akron, the sick industry is tires; in Gary and Baltimore, steel; and everywhere, construction. This depression in heavy industry has triggered a spectacular rise in the unemployment rate from 7 per cent in July to 8.9 per cent in December. Unemployment in basic durable goods manufacturing as a whole stands at 11.8 per cent; in the automotive industry, at 21.7 per cent. So it should come as no surprise that two heavily industrialized states now boast unemployment figures in the Great Depression neighborhood: Michigan...
...publicity the Kirghiz have received has brought in money. Along with unsolicited donations from Americans who have heard of their plight, the Kirghiz benefit from the approximately $500,000 the International Rescue Commission earmarks each year for Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The committee has also helped out with the lobbying the Kirghiz desperately need to get to America. The Ford and Tolstoy Foundations and the Young Mens Christian Association have also expressed an interest in helping the Kirghiz. But all who are working on the project agree that it is difficult to find funds...