Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disagrees with both Burns and Heller, believes that "there are forces at work that have produced another structural type of unemployment that already has proved to be indefinitely persistent, even in periods of unprecedented general prosperity." The man who knows most about the unemployment statistics, Labor Department Manpower Expert Seymour Wolfbein, feels that structural, or continued, unemployment is a growing threat-but that little can be done about it until the economy advances far enough to get the cyclically unemployed back to work. "You will still have structural unemployment," says Wolfbein, "but to try to lick the structural problem...
...unemployables must be willing to learn new skills and be ready to move to where the jobs are. And the nation's labor force in the 19603 will need more schooling than before to hold their own in the competition. "A job is no longer automatic," says Seymour Wolfbein. "Without preparation, a U.S. worker will have, increasingly, a hard time finding...
...Whitney North Seymour, president of the American Bar Association, speaking at Manhattan's Interchurch Center: "We should strive to improve the institutions which will apply the principles of international law. This means strengthening the U.N., preserving and insuring the independence of the Secretary-General, creating a permanent peace force under the U.N. in place of the present improvised system, and strengthening the World Court...
...take full account of quality changes, which have on average been quality improvements." By simply reporting that consumers pay more for goods, the C.P.I, fails to take into account that buyers often get better clothes or more complex cars for their money. Many other economists, including Harvard's Seymour Harris, agree that quality improvements may offset many of the higher prices reported in the index. If the C.P.I.'s upward bias had been corrected properly, Yale's Richard Ruggles told the committee, the index would actually have shown a net decline in the cost of living...
...Seymour E. Harris another panelist, recalled his frequent appearances before the Senator's committee, and complained that "the views of men like Goldwater" have blocked his policy proposals. To Harris's contention that a $10 billion deficit could bring the country out of its current recession, Goldwater replied...