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Guttmacher researchers concur, pointing out that countries like Holland, Sweden and France provide far more generously for indigent young mothers, yet have low pregnancy rates. Research by Sociologist Frank Furstenberg of the University of Pennsylvania further refutes the notion that teenagers who become pregnant are simply looking for a handout. In following 400 young black mothers in Baltimore, Furstenberg discovered that most were "surprisingly motivated to get off welfare." In fact, 17 years after bearing a first child, only one-quarter were receiving public assistance...
SCANDINAVIA. Lundgren observed that four of the Nordic countries are each going through very different experiences. Sweden, for example, is struggling with wage and price increases that are 2% to 4% higher than those of its major competitors. This year wages may rise by close to 8%. Growth is expected to slow from 2.5% to 1% in 1986. In Denmark, by contrast, inflation and wage in creases are coming down to the rate of its partners in the European Community after years of rapid government spending. Denmark's major problem is a widening trade deficit, which is increasing the country...
...estimates by TIME's European Board of Economists... Growth % change in real G.N.P., 4Q over 4Q Inflation % change in C.P.I., Dec. over Dec. Unemployment % of civilian labor force, year-end W. Germany 2.3 1.8 9.2 France 1.4 4.9 10.0 Britain 3.5 5.5 13.0 Italy 2.6 8.6 10.8 Sweden 2.5 5.3 2.9 W. Europe 2.7 5.0 11.3 U.S.[*] 2.4 3.6 (Nov./Nov) 6.9 ... and their 1986 forecasts Growth % change in real G.N.P., 4Q over 4Q Inflation % change in C.P.I., Dec. over Dec. Unemployment % of civilian labor force, year-end W. Germany 3.0 2.0 8.5 France 2.1 4.0 11.0 Britain...
...somber ceremony marked a kind of coming-of-age for a country long untouched by political violence. The man who was tapped to launch the new era in Sweden is Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, 51, the mild-mannered politician elected by Parliament three days earlier to succeed Palme. After the new Prime Minister had spent a week in the public eye and held a series of meetings with visiting foreign leaders, the contrast with his predecessor was vivid. While Palme often dazzled his listeners with his rhetorical brilliance, Carlsson's speeches tended to be as wooden as Swedish birch...
Born Nov. 9, 1934, in the provincial town of Boras in southwest Sweden, Carlsson grew up in modest circumstances. The son of a seamstress and coffee-factory worker, he graduated from a commercial high school and went on to earn a degree in political science at the University of Lund in 1958. With Palme, Carlsson became a political protégé of Prime Minister Tage Erlander, the architect of the Swedish welfare state. His first major post was as Minister of Education in the government formed by Prime Minister Palme in 1969. Carlsson served Palme until his death, acting...