Archive for May, 2011
29
May
Posted by miracles in Community, Helping Each Other, The Job Search. Tagged: hired, over 50 and out of work, seattle grandfather. Leave a Comment
The Web project Over 50 and Out of Work has traveled across the country interviewing older unemployed workers for its video project, this month reaching its goal of 100 video stories. One of those stories was about Rudy Limas, a single grandfather raising his two young grandchildren on his own. A 30-year veteran truck driver, [...]
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29
May
Posted by miracles in Government CAN Help!, Unemployment. Tagged: 99 weeks, bureau of labor statistics, long term unemployment. 1 Comment
Many thanks to statistics geek and retired guy Arsen Darnay for digging up this gem from a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner’s presentation in January 2011. It shows what’s hard to find anywhere else: an estimate of how many people have been unemployed for 99 weeks or longer. The significance of “99 weeks” [...]
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29
May
Posted by miracles in Community, Our Recession/Depression, Unemployment. Tagged: long term unemployment, struggling, your stories. Leave a Comment
The new Your Stories section features exactly that: your stories, submitted to New Hard Times via the new Tell Your Story form. The first story comes from Arlington Heights, Illinois, from a communications specialst who has “tried everything” to find a job. She survives – barely – with a part-time retail job and a few [...]
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26
May
Posted by miracles in Government CAN Help!, The Job Search, Unemployment. Tagged: discrimination, recession stories. Leave a Comment
Time Magazine has a special report online called Out of Work in America, which profiles 16 jobless workers and how they’re coping with the prospect of long-term unemployment. Emily McMillan (left) has been out of work since August 2010 and is now pregnant. Luckily, her husband still has a good job, but his income alone [...]
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25
May
Posted by miracles in The Job Search. Tagged: careeronestop, counselor, linkedin, sacramento professional network. Leave a Comment
In April, Louis G. suddenly lost his job after 16 years. Since then, he has responded to each reality check not with depression and defeat but with fresh ideas and new energy, drawing on every available resource and following every lead and every piece of advice with a focused intensity. In short, Louis G. is doing everything [...]
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24
May
Posted by miracles in Community, Helping Each Other. Tagged: interview, recession stories, submit. Leave a Comment
I’ve just added a new form where you can submit your own recession story to New Hard Times. We’ll review it and let you know when we publish it. You can also check a box telling us you’d like to be interviewed for our story collection, alongside Margi’s, Bianca’s, and mine. The form is always [...]
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23
May
Posted by miracles in Our Recession/Depression, The Job Search, Unemployment. Tagged: black men, mancession, newsweek. Leave a Comment
Despite what Newsweek and Daily Beast say, the “Mancession” has hurt black men, not white men, the most. According to MSNBC, at 17 percent, unemployment for black men is double that of white men, and double what it was three years ago.
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21
May
Posted by miracles in Community, The Job Search. Tagged: free classes, free training, itunes u. Leave a Comment
Need to learn Microsoft PowerPoint but don’t want to take a full college course? Want to learn how to garden, and then how to cook the vegetables you grow? Would you like a refresher class on accounting or statistics? How about career advice and job-search tips? All this and more are available on Apple Computer’s [...]
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20
May
Posted by miracles in The Job Search. Tagged: job search strategies, success stories. Leave a Comment
Even in this dry, dry season, I know of three people, all in my job networking group, who recently got new good-paying, benefitted jobs. All three had been unemployed for one to four years, and all three landed jobs doing similar work but in new industries. The colleague out of work for four years, now [...]
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17
May
Posted by miracles in Unemployment. Tagged: cuts in unemployment benefits, long term unemployment, state legislatures. Leave a Comment
I’ve seen headlines from one state at a time, but this USA Today story documents that states are beginning to cut back on the length of time people can receive unemployment, both in the short term and the long term. Is this what we elected our representatives to do?
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