For example. the unemployment rate for Detroit and my own city of Rockford are both somewhat above the national average. Yet the main cause of the current high unemployment rate in Rockford. a machine tool center. is the recession in the highly sensitivecapital goods industry. In Detroit. by contrast. there has been a longterm short.age of jobs for the hundreds of thousands of unskilled rural migrants who have streamed into the city over the past three decades and hence a chronically high unemployment rate. The point obviously is that the composition of the unemployed labor force in the. two cities is very different. and. that quite different manpower programs and strategies are required. Yet. according to the committee bill. the two cities would receive roughly proportional funds when the real need for pub.lic service employment is not proportional ..at all.
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