From the New York Times Mr. Harold, a 71-year-old Vietnam War veteran who drifted here in the late ’60s, has participated for about a decade in a federal program called H-2A that allows seasonal foreign workers into the country to make up the gap where willing and able American workers are few in number. He [...]
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Unemployment and the deterioration of skills
A new paper put out about the long term unemployment rate by the San Francisco Federal Reserve has an interesting tidbit in it. Workers out of jobs for extended periods may experience higher rates of unemployment owing to deterioration of skills and weakening labor market attachment. The previously discussed mismatch between skills and available jobs [...]
Unemployment takes it toll on the employed
Good article on what it is like for the working spouse of someone who has been laid off in Tampa Bay. We know how unemployed people struggle. Dozens, if not hundreds, of candidates compete for every opening. People spend months sending out resumes, calling old contacts, straining to prop up their sagging self-esteem. But what [...]
Unemployed long haired freaky people need not apply
Unemployed are often being excluded from job searches The last thing someone who is unemployed needs to be told is that they shouldn’t even apply for the limited number of job openings that are available. But some companies and recruiters are doing just that. Employment experts say they believe companies are increasingly interested only in [...]
The New Poor: Years Between Jobs
The New York Times looks at the impact of being unemployed for years not just months as people were in the past. Economists fear that the nascent recovery will leave more people behind than in past recessions, failing to create jobs in sufficient numbers to absorb the record-setting ranks of the long-term unemployed. Call them [...]
The young and the unemployed
From the Toronto Star With about a million British youth unemployed, ours is hardly an isolated crisis. A recent editorial in the conservative U.K. Economist says the "plight of the jobless young … invokes talk of a lost generation." It notes the well-known phenomenon that "prolonged unemployment early in people’s working lives will leave them [...]
Maybe the recession isn’t over yet
From Bob Herbert in the New York Times For those concerned with the economic viability of the American family going forward, the plight of young workers, especially young men, is particularly frightening. The percentage of young American men who are actually working is the lowest it has been in the 61 years of record-keeping, according [...]
Don’t Check Up
As a NASCAR fan, you lose perspective over how many job losses hit the sport this year but there has been 700 highly educated mechanic, fabricators, and engineers who have been laid off. Don’t Check Up is a job search website just for NASCAR employees who have been let go during the recession. The back [...]
