Word: retraining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teaching skills to otherwise "unemployable" people. The Labor Department also should set up the long-discussed computerized "job bank" that would list employment opportunities throughout the nation, and subsidize needy workers who want to move to take distant jobs. In Sweden, the government offers more than 300 courses to retrain the jobless, pays the expenses of an unemployed Swede who travels to look for work, and underwrites his moving bills once he finds a job. The cost is high: more than 5% of the Swedish budget. But the payoff is impressive: Swedish unemployment has consistently been well below that...
...Massachusetts Hall receptionist. Not one of these requests was answered. Later attempts were made to meet with the Advisory Board; these were also refused, DISC representatives communicated with Advisory Board members individually, until this line of communication was cut when Prof. Brimmer asked the members of the Board to retrain from making official statements concerning the workings of the Board...
...Kobysh's description of their interview, Ulam appears tense, unfriendly 9and difficult to communicate with. He is not quoted as saying much--no more, anyway than his interviewer who finds it impossible to "retrain from polemical questions...
...Egypt, in spite of President Anwar Sadat's recent arms shopping in France, remains dependent on the U.S.S.R. for weapons. No matter how edgy Sadat is about such dependence, he knows it would take years to retrain Egyptian forces to use an alternative weapons system...
...there would be a crash $10 billion program to hire job seekers and put them to work building housing, public-transit and sewage-plant projects. There would also be a comprehensive plan of medical insurance, financed separately by an increase in payroll taxes, and expenses of unspecified size to retrain and pay at 80% of full salary the people thrown out of work by McGovern's defense slashes...