There are still more than 3 million Americans who have been unemployed for more than 52 weeks and, as WSJ reports, economists (via recent studies) worry they will never work again. Of course, with benefits at such heights (and work punished), it is not surprising but on the demand side, for the long-term unemployed, interview "callback rates decrease dramatically at 9 months of unemployment." Worst still, for those applying for medium-to-low skilled jobs (so the majority), being long-term unemployed reduced interview requests by 20% - the equivalent of shaving four years of work experience off their resumes. Critically, one study found employers showed "a strong distaste for applicants with long spells of non-employment."
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I have a strong distaste for employers and corporations who have outsourced and in sourced workers from foreign countries due to nothing but pure greed and and corrupt government that allows this to happen.
ReplyDeleteI know for a fact by working with the unemployed, that most jobs now are either temporary or part time with no benefits! Obama care is partly to blame for this.
I believe the real unemployment rate is over 25 percent and as high as 50 percent when you count those who are working 20 hours or less per week.
I believe Corporation at their core are evil and have done more harm than good for this country.
The real businesses that keep what is left of this country going is small to medium size companies. These are businesses we should all be supporting and not anything with a corporate stamp on it.
We all need to support local businesses where local money is invested.
4:49 There's not a lot of people, who are unemployed, knocking on the doors of business. I had a guy turn down a full time position (With health benefits) because he got more on unemployment, with food card and government assisted health. THAT's the big problem.
ReplyDeleteWe have allowed people to become LAZY, with no need to prove themselves. That is what's pathetic. The citizens are the problem, not the businesses.
9:16 I guess that says a lot about YOU and your business when you are not even offering people a LIVABLE wage and then call them LAZY for not wanting to live in poverty while you are rolling in it.
ReplyDeleteUnemployment max is $430 a week.
You are also too stupid to realize he did you a favor because he could have taken your poverty paying job and then continued to work and look for a better one.
People like you are the real problem.