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While most economists agree that structural unemployment is something to be very concerned about, many believe that the Administration is trying to use the concept as a smokescreen to cover its failed policies. "How do you measure structural unemployment?" asks Sar Levitan, an economics professor at George Washington University. "You pull a figure out of the air. Those who talk about it are playing with numbers to build up a justification for unemployment." Says Barry Bosworth, an economist who was director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability under President Carter: "We have an enormous number of jobless people...
WITH AN impressive huff and a puff, House Democrats last week cleared the latest Reagan smokescreen: a proposed Constitutional amendment mandating a balanced budget. Administration foes claimed a victory, but their actions may well prove costly as the final month of election campaigning gets underway...
...academic mission of the college and a perverse deviation from the scholarly norm of reasoned discourse. It doesn't belong there. And when The Review insists otherwise, its protests that it is a victim of a liberal "establishment"--the paper called a faculty vote condemning their racist policy a "smokescreen" for the "real issue" of Smith's conviction--border on shamelessness...
What's more, the reasoning behind the campaign to amend the act is spacious. The union of Republicans and industrial state Democrats who support the changes in the act contend it will stimulate the economy and create jobs. Yet this seems merely a smokescreen to salvage ailing and uncompetitive industries, the legislators and bureaucrats who favor the changes are ignoring recent reports which demonstrate that regulation creates more hobs than it eliminates...
When Byrne did not act, HUD froze $14.5 million in subsidies. The mayor retaliated by taking out $35,000 worth of newspaper ads describing HUD's charges as a smokescreen for "inadequate funding for public housing." Swibel held firm, refusing to resign at a raucous CHA meeting early last week. "I'm staying because I've done nothing wrong," he insisted shortly before being hospitalized with an apparent ulcer attack...