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...mood of simmering discontent among the nation's blue-collar workers, who feel themselves victimized by inflation, trapped in unpleasant jobs and neglected by the rest of the U.S. "These men are on a treadmill, chasing the illusion of higher living standards," Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow recently observed in a much remarked study. "They feel like 'forgotten people.'" Blue-collar workers in many states, Rosow notes, often have incomes only a notch above welfare payments, and they resent being taxed to pay for special benefits accorded the poor, but denied to them...
...report, written by Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow, notes that 40% of American families, comprising 70 million family members, have incomes of between $5,000 and $10,000 a year. That is hardly a new or eyebrow raising perception, but the analysis points out that these "forgotten Americans"-many of them ethnics and blue-collar workers-feel bedeviled by crime, welfare, inflation and Government inattention. The squeeze is not only economic but social; the mystique of the nobility and value of labor is all but gone...
...went about it. Moreover, a President cannot deal with every question personally, and so he must have a staff to screen people and problems he is to confront; thus it becomes a mark of skill in Government for anyone to discover a way to get presidential attention. Says Jerome Rosow, an Assistant Secretary of Labor: "If there is a palace guard, you have to learn to deal with it. That's just the way things are. The guys who get through the palace guard are not only the favorites. They are the ones who are the most effective. They...
...JEROME ROSOW Yeadon...