The most serious effect was the emergence of chronic unemployment.

Limited economic opportunities have led to chronic unemployment and poverty.

Its population was characterized by chronic unemployment and deep poverty.

But there remains a perception of social breakdown, especially in a country with chronic unemployment.

As a group, experts say, they still experience high rates of alcoholism, family violence and chronic unemployment.

Solutions to chronic unemployment are not difficult to identify.

County officials hope that the prison will be a tonic for its sluggish economy and chronic unemployment.

But for some people in communities with chronic unemployment, relaxed deadlines mean that welfare remains as they have always known it.

Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war.

Furthermore, another problem was overpopulation of the countryside, which resulted in chronic unemployment.

The purpose of the concert was to highlight the chronic unemployment problem in Ireland at the time, with nearly 250,000 people unemployed.

Each, moreover, has an effective social welfare safety net that cushions the political consequences of chronic unemployment.

There is the world of shuttered factories, chronic unemployment and unsolved welfare problems.

But it remains to be seen whether this will exacerbate chronic unemployment or solve it.

The depression of the late 1920s and chronic unemployment appeared to confirm Malthusian pessimism.

The city suffers from chronic unemployment averaging 20%.

In addition to the violence and intimidation, there was chronic unemployment and a severe housing shortage.

Wholly reliant upon the textile industry, the cotton famine created chronic unemployment in the town.

Many of those families became homeless as a result of domestic violence, substance abuse, mental illness or chronic unemployment.

Economic stagnation, chronic unemployment, and a dwindling population have turned many of the eastern neighborhoods into ghost towns.

But many demobbed troops complained of chronic unemployment and suffered low pay, disease and poor housing.

Many business executives contend that the social safety nets in most Western European countries encourage chronic unemployment rather than job creation.

For while the statistics portray a booming economy, they obscure the other Britain of shuttered factories and chronic unemployment.

There is something fundamentally wrong with most countries' system of economic organisation that leads to periods of boom, bust and chronic unemployment.

The region, with 1.5 million residents, has no gas or oil, dreadful roads, chronic unemployment, and little in the way of hope for its dwindling population.