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Unemployment rose to its highest level in 4½ years. The February jobless rate was 4.2%, up from 3.9% in January. In human terms, the figures mean that 3,800,000 people were out of work last month, compared with only 3,400,000 a month earlier. The configuration of the increase looks even more disturbing than the totals. Labor Department officials said that about three-fifths of the unemployment rise during January and February involves workers who have lost their jobs, rather than new workers who have not yet found positions. Unemployment among nonwhites, which was surprisingly stable...
...economists expected, the brunt of the overall increase in joblessness has hit blue-collar workers in durable-goods manufacturing, the major sinew of U.S. economic abundance. In just twelve months, the durable-goods jobless rate almost doubled-from a post-Korean War low of 2.5% to 4.7% last month. The troubled auto industry, beset by a winter of declining sales and layoffs of thousands of workers, accounted for one-third of the February rise in unemployment, Government statisticians said...
...hatred of Hitler that first impelled Alinsky to try his hand at organization. In the so-called Back of the Yards section of Chicago in the late '30s, fascism was making many converts among the jobless, bitterly frustrated slumdwellers. "This was not the slum across the tracks," recalls Alinsky. "This was the slum across the tracks from across the tracks." By organizing a series of sitdowns and boycotts, he forced the neighborhood meat packers and slumlords to meet the demands of the community for a better life. Alien ideologies lost their force, and Back of the Yards became...
Russo's wife works as a bank teller. His unemployment compensation plus the United Steelworkers' jobless benefits will add up to as much as his take-home pay as a laborer. "I've been through this before," says Russo. "At first it's like a paid vacation, but then you have too much time on your hands, and you begin to worry." The most nagging worry: if Russo is off for six months, he will lose Blue Cross coverage. Money pinch or not, Ray Russo has no plans to look for work because that would wipe...
...agencies with conflicting environmental responsibilities must be reordered. While the Agriculture Department pays farmers to drain wetlands, for example, the Interior Department pays to preserve them. Worse, the farm-subsidy program encourages the misuse of toxic chemicals, one-crop farming that destroys ecological diversity, and mechanization that drives jobless rural laborers into packed cities. Federal highway builders, the Army Corps of Engineers?all such official land abusers?need retraining in ecological values...