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  1. Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!ukma!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
  3. From: New Liberation News Service <nlns@igc.apc.org>
  4. Subject: 17 Million Jobless, Underemployed
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec15.164652.23507@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
  6. Followup-To: alt.activism.d
  7. Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  8. Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
  9. Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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  11. Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:46:52 GMT
  12. Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
  13. Lines: 31
  14.  
  15. /* Written  6:55 pm  Dec 14, 1992 by labornet@igc.apc.org in igc:labor.newsline */
  16. /* ---------- "17 Million Jobless, Underemployed" ---------- */
  17.                  17 Million Jobless, Underemployed
  18.  
  19.  
  20.      WASHINGTON (PAI)--The job market showed modest improvement in
  21. November, causing the unemployment rate to edge down to 7.2 percent
  22. from 7.4 percent in October, the Labor Dept. reported.  Still, 9.2
  23. million people sought work and couldn't find it.
  24.  
  25.      The AFL-CIO called the November decline in unemployment
  26. "positive."  However, the federation added, "a look behind the
  27. overall numbers reveals that the gains in employment are mainly in
  28. part-time work, self-employment, and upaid family work rather than
  29. in full-time wage and salary jobs."
  30.  
  31.      Factory unemployment is still down nearly 1.5 million from
  32. January 1989, and construction is down 600,000, the AFL-CIO noted,
  33. adding:  "Clearly, the nation needs to put people back to work with
  34. an effective jobs program."
  35.  
  36.      With 9.2 million jobless, 1.2 million drop-outs who have
  37. stopped looking for work, and 6.6 million on part-time
  38. involuntarily, it meant 17 million people unemployed and
  39. underemployed.
  40.  
  41. Excerpted from 12/7/92 Press Associates, Inc.
  42.                        806 15th St., NW, ste.632
  43.                        Washington, DC  20005
  44.                        202/638-0444.
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