Word: wisconsin
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This heresy has been argued most forcefully by Economists Robinson G. Hollister and John L. Palmer in a study for the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Research on Poverty. They contend that the labor shortages produced by an inflationary boom enable many of the poor to land jobs that otherwise would remain beyond their reach. Using complex mathematical formulas, they support earlier calculations that a reduction in the unemployment rate from 5.4% to 3.5%-experienced by the U.S. between April 1964 and November 1966-creates 1,042,000 full-time jobs for poor people who otherwise would...
...gives more weight to increases in food and rent expenses, less importance to rises in clothing, transportation, medical and education costs. Between 1965 and 1967, the last year for which they calculated the poor price index, it rose 5.1%, compared with a 5.8% increase in the CPI. The Wisconsin researchers conclude that "the poor are not hurt by inflation"-but could be hurt badly by even a "slight" rise in unemployment resulting from a fight against inflation...
...SOLDIERS. Early Sunday afternoon, after trucking down to the Waffle Shop on Wisconsin Ave. for a fine breakfast, we left town. Despite a few wrong turns we finally found the highway, and we were...
Kleindienst, Dean's superior, said that some of these militants would come from Harvard. M. I. T., and the University of Wisconsin. "If they engaged in violence there, we must assume that they may engage in violence here," he said...
Whether or not Cresswell is right, Leonard has been forced to change his own tactics. He came to the Justice Department from Wisconsin, where he was the majority leader of the state senate and wrote the state's open-housing...