Limited other economic opportunities have led to chronic unemployment and poverty.
The most serious effect was the emergence of chronic unemployment.
But there remains a perception of social breakdown, especially in a country with chronic unemployment.
Even the least sophisticated found it easy to blame the chronic unemployment which afflicted Britain on the war.
Its population was characterized by chronic unemployment and deep poverty.
As a group, experts say, they still experience high rates of alcoholism, family violence and chronic unemployment.
But in an area of chronic high unemployment, they express fear that the state is not pressing its case hard enough.
County officials hope that the prison will be a tonic for its sluggish economy and chronic unemployment.
Solutions to chronic unemployment are not difficult to identify.
But for some people in communities with chronic unemployment, relaxed deadlines mean that welfare remains as they have always known it.