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Friday, August 31, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Want to Find a Job? Good Luck
Students Check Job Listings at Financial Aid Office
Unemployment Low Here
Bv JIM KENDELL.
Kansan Feature Editor
Unemployment in Douglas County has 'always been below the national average, according to Edson Mills, local manager of the state employment service.
Mills attributed the low rate, 3.4 per cent for July, to the county's fairly stable, diversified economy. The local economy is driven by industry and defense industry, not seasonal employment.
Mils said the July figure represented about 775 unemployed persons. It is computed on the number of people receiving unemployment benefits.
The Fractures in unemployment shown in the adjacent table are caused in the cold months by a slowing of construction. Local, regional and federal reflect this increase in unemployment.
The June increase on all three levels represents the entry of students and business students at New York University.
The highest unemployment rate recorded
in Douglas County in the past ten years as a
recorded in June 1971—6.5 per cent. The
Students looking for work are not counted as "unemployed" by the Department of Labor, but as non-members of the labor force.
Yet students with part-time jobs are counted as being employed. About 21,90 persons were employed in Douglas Count; in July.
The national figures on unemployment are computed on the basis of a poll conducted in 1986.
Yet E. W. Maxwell, chief of Research and Statistics for the state Department of Labor, said that local and national statistics are comparable, though they are computed
The seasonally adjusted national unemployment figures have declined steadily in the past year from 5.8 per cent in August 1972 to 4.7 per cent in July.
In some sense that's a measure of the
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Lawrence junior majoring in French has worked nine months.
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate takes seasonal variations into account to portray the unemployment rate in a "normal" month.
general improvement in economic activity,'' said Ronald R. Olsen, professor of business.
Olsen said the current upturn in business was the result of more spending for capital goods—anything used to produce another industry, by consumers and by government.
Students Find Scarcity of Jobs; Work-Study Office Good Source
The latest "good news-bad news" joke circulating on campus is that there are still too few jobs available for students seeking higher education but 1.5 easier than ever to find out that.
By BUNNY MILLER
Kansan Staff Reporter
The student job-hunter can try to find jobs through direct contact with possible employers such as the Kansas State Employment Service, the work-study program or student employment service in the office of student financial aid.
Many students said it was difficult to find on-campus jobs if they were not qualified
"No one wants to hire you unless you can qualify for work-study," said Jim Druffey, Des Moines junior. "Then you have a hassle going through the right channels for that."
Joan Sherwood, student financial aid counselor, said it was far easier to get a loan.
To qualify for the program, a student must be in need of employment in order to continue his course of study, capable of maintaining good standing in his course of study. A U.S. citizen or intent to become a permanent resident of the United States.
In the work-study program, the federal government will pay 80 per cent of the student's salary while the employer pays 20 per cent, Sherwool said.
Sherwool said she already had seen some 275 students this semester seeking employment. She said she and had found positions for only 75 to 125 of them. She estimated nearly 300 University of Kansas students who are eligible for the job, in, and she encouraged them to do so.
Over one-half of the available work-study jobs are typing and clerical work, Sherwood school teachers, computer operators, research assistants, drafters, photographers, shopkeepers and traffic and security help. Wages normally run from $800 per hour and most students pay up to $15 per hour at 15 hours a day.
Darwin Eads, director of the student employment service located in 26 Strong, said about 200 students made use of the service in the last two weeks.
Early in the week the service listed about 90 on- and off-campus positions in domestic.
restaurant, clerical, custodial and farm work.
"The people that get the jobs are the ones who work the hardest and look the hardest," he said. "It might take a week or several months, but I'll do my best to find something for anyone who really wants a job."
Eads recommended the student employment service as "a good place to start looking." He said it was important for job-seekers to be persistent.
UNADJUSTED UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
Edson Mills, manager of the Lawrence Opportunity Center, said he had a "normal flood of inquiries" and only 10 to 15 part-time jobs available for students.
"The biggest stumbling block isn't lack of experience but the student's schedule," be
The Lawrence job market had "opened up considerably" in the last two weeks. Mills
U. S. KANSIS DOUGLAS CO.
said, and he currently has more job orders than he did in 1972.
Students may try their luck by simply contacting possible employers themselves. Larger department, discount and food prices are usually available; hire several college students every year.
Some 30 to 50 students are employed at Gibson's Discount Store as floor clerks and checkers. They earn from $1.60 to $1.80 an hour, according to the store manager.
A Kroger Store official said eight college-
acked checkers and stockers were employed
at the store.
Kresge employs about 50 students to handle freight at $3 and $4 an hour on the night shift, according to the personnel director.
No statistics on total student employment are available, but approximately 2,800 students are employed by the University, said Keith Rattolf, payroll director.
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Employment Scarce for Minorities
If you're black in America in 1973, it's as hard for you to get a job as a white
Those statistics published by the U.S. Department of Labor are hesitantly confirmed by some local officials concerned with equal opportunities and questioned by others.
If you're a woman in America in 1973 it's half again hard to get to a job as a man.
"In most cases the white male will get the paj habit than the minority person or the woman," she said.
city Human Relations Commission.
One of the reasons is that white men have more training, according to Samuel. "That's the reason why today we're putting so much stress on training."
He said that as director of the Commission, many whites, including the top managers of local firms, had cooperated with him to open jobs to minority people.
Sometimes middle-management personnel slow the process of integration. "Prejudice is still here. The fact of the matter is that they are sophisticated, hard to pin down" he said.
He cited a case in which an unqualified person had been hired and the manager
No one agency at KU lists all the jobs available on campus, so a student must go all over campus applying at many different places.
"It really difficult to tell whether this effects one class of students more than another class," she said. "Males may have more friends and find it easier to get a job than women."
then said, "We tried, it just didn't work out."
At the University, Shirley Gilham, at the Affirmative Action, said, "I think that there's a good deal of confusion associated with student employment."
As passed by the House June 6 and the Senate July 19, the bill would increase the minimum wage of 34.7 million workers to 60 days and on July 1, 1974 to $2.20.
Agricultural workers, whose minimum wage is now $1.30, would be raised to $2.50 in January; they would be raised to $1.65 in 30 or 60 days. The minimum would be raised by 20 cent increments until July 1, 1975, when agricultural workers would make $2.20 an hour.
The bill was reported out of conference and approved again by both the House and Senate early in August but has not yet been accepted to President Nixon for his signature.
The bill would increase the minimum wage to $1.80 for some 10.6 million wage earners not covered until 1966. Included are schools of schools and certain state institutions.
Casey Eike, assistant to the Dean of Women, said, "It's equally difficult for everyone—both men and women" to find a job.
Legislation May Boost Pay Soon
to direct more of its attention this year toward the equal hiring among students
These employees would be raised to $2
July 1, 1974 and $2.20 July 1, 1975.
When and if President Nixon signs a new law passed by both Houses of Congress, many workers will benefit in the minimum wage, from $1.90 to $2 an hour.
Gilham had few minor students were employed temporarily during enrollment. Likewise Cynthia Turner, director of Ballard Center, noted the small number of black faces in the stores along Massachusetts from 7th to 11th.
She said that Affirmative Action expects
Edson Mills, manager of the local State Employment Service, agreed that it was not especially difficult for women and minorities to get jobs.
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