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...another, there is bound to be 'frictional unemployment' amounting to about 2% to 2.5%. There will always be, in addition to this, about one-half of 1% who simply lack what it takes." Adding up those figures, federal policymakers conclude that a jobless rate of 21% to 3% would constitute "full employment." The nation has advanced halfway toward that goal in the past two years, is now only 1,000,000 jobs short of achieving...
...most, there are 600,000 married men with families in the U.S. who can be classed as longterm, hard-core cases of unemployment. Though the commonly cited figure for the jobless is nearly 5,000,000, among them are close to 1,000,000 youths under 24, more than 2,000,000 "short-term" jobless and many others who are seeking only part-time work...
...eliminating old ones. In mid-August, the Labor Department reported last week, the number of Americans on nonagricultural payrolls reached an all-time high of 61.1 million, 334,000 more than in July. During the same period, total unemployment dropped by 350,-000 to 3,300,000, although the jobless rate remained at July's 4.5% - an eight-year low - because of a temporary decrease in the work force...
...last week's eruptions. Many Negro leaders, in fact, had long warned that violence is an inevitable if unwelcome weapon in their struggle. Some of their statements, past and present BAYARD RUSTIN, who planned the 1963 march on Washington: "I think the real cause is that Negro youth-jobless, hopeless-does not feel a part of American society. The major job we have is to find them work, decent housing, education, training, so they can feel a part of the structure. People who feel a part of the structure do not attack it. The job of the Negro leadership...
...them go to the Caucasus, where they settle down as "kitchen gardeners"-people who farm their own backyards. More Daring. If they have their way, the followers of Economist Evsei Liberman (TIME cover, Feb. 12), who want to put the Soviet economy on a profit basis, will swell the jobless ranks even more. In Kommunist, Economist G. Shubkin recently complained that two workers often shared the same task in 60 Moscow factories he studied. Shubkin's suggestion: with the "inevitable dismissal of this surplus labor," employment agencies should be set up to find jobs for the displaced workers. Liber...