Word: toleration
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Despite November's sharp dip in unemployment, the total at year's end was still running half again as high as the 4% rate that the Administration deems toler able. More serious, there had been painfully little reduction of unemployment amongst those last-hired, first-fired groups of Americans: the unskilled, the Negroes, the very old and the very young, notably the high school dropouts. In 1961, unskilled and semiskilled laborers constituted less than a quarter of the U.S. work force-but almost half the long-term unemployed. In an increasingly automated and sophisticated economy, those workers...