joblessness

It’s billed as a way to reduce joblessness, but doesn’t.

Economists call this “hysteresis”, where joblessness begets more of it.

Experts agree that attacking the factors driving international migration — poverty, joblessness, drug and gang violence, agricultural failures due to climate change, corruption and other rule-of-law challenges — is essential to reducing pressure on our southern border.

A year earlier, her husband had burst onto the national stage with “Hillbilly Elegy,” his breakout memoir that grappled with generational joblessness, opioid addiction and poverty in rural white America.

Speaking on national broadcaster SABC, Madonsela outlined how South Africa’s democratic journey is still marred by vast problems of joblessness and race-based inequality at some of the worst levels in the world.