Joblessness Rose Again Last Month: Black, Teen-Age, Part-Time Rates...
The nationÛªs unemployment rate jumped back up to a seasonally adjusted 8.8 percent last month, while another-5.1 percent of the work force was employed only part time because of the recession, the Labor Department reported yesterday.</br></br>Altogether, some 14.9 million workersJiad no job or only part-time work last month. Janet L. Norwood, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, told a congressional committee that, even if current forecasts of an economic recovery later this year are correct, as many as 30 million people could be unemployed sometime in 1982.</br></br>The Reagan administration expects unemployment this year to average1 8.9 percent, but officials have warned that it could reach 10 percent before the predicted recovery gains enough momentum to begin to reduce the rate.</br></br>Unemployment rates for blacks and teenagers were at record levels last month, the department said. Joblessness among blacks reached 17.3	percent, tying the record set in December, while teen-age unemployment climbed 0.6 percentage points to 22.3 percent, the highest in history.</br></br>The 5.6 million people forced to work part time was also a record. Norwood" said that the ÛÏinvoluntaryÛ part-time workers are ÛÏgenerally people who. have a harder time in the labor market,Û such as women and minorities.