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...argues A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, marginal workers such as married women, the very young, and the elderly are too discouraged to seek work. This, says Meany bitterly, "helps the unemployment statistics some, but it doesn't help the unemployment problem at all." Labor Department Manpower Expert Seymour Wolfbein, however, believes that the plight of the marginal worker has its bright side: if young people concentrate on getting more education and if less efficient workers stay at home, the U.S. work force should increase its productivity, to the ultimate benefit of the whole economy...
...California with its missiles and electronics plants, and Florida now account for one out of every six nonfarm jobs. Five Rocky Mountain states (Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada) all advanced at more than twice the national average, "not only because of defense installations such as Los Alamos," explains Wolfbein, "but right across the industrial board." Even with this record, the five have a long way to go before becoming highly industrialized: they still have only 1,500,000 nonfarm workers...
What does the changing U.S. jobography mean? For one thing, says Wolfbein, "we may see less of the classic pattern of job hunters flooding into the North from the South." For another, the shift shows the momentum of the force that creates chronic-unemployment areas when industry moves out-a problem that no one yet fully understands how to remedy. And it points up the need to explain the story of the new industrial map to the rapidly growing horde of new workers, so that a Southern boy training to be a die cutter will realize that he does...
...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...
...Longer Automatic. Even at a high level of business activity, warns Wolfbein, there will be limits to what can be done about the unemployables-except by the unemployables themselves. Government agencies and communities can retrain workers and try to attract new industry to depressed areas. But the 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...