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unemployment
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unemployment,
n the state of being without a job or compensation for work, usually involuntarily.
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Then there's the chronic poverty, joblessness and miserably failing, under-served schools that trap legions of young blacks.
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The downside is that women's rise to power may also reflect the struggles with joblessness, alcoholism, and poverty of many American Indian men.
At the top of the tribe: as tribal leaders, American Indian women are ... by Davey, Monica / New York Times Upfront
Poverty, sundrenched squalor, hordes of unwanted children being taught by violence to perpetrate violence, the inanition bred by joblessness and the social alienation bred by official brutality (in one scene, a suspect cornered by police automatically expects to be executed)--all this is presented with the same sizzling realism that we encountered in the much greater movie that inspired Hood, Fernando Meirelles's City of God.
Mean Streets: GAVIN HOOD'S 'TSOTSI' by Alleva, Richard / Commonweal
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