Just as we had fervently hoped, that happy day has arrived: Louis G. did receive and accept an offer from the manufacturing firm and starts his new job in early July. Read the update.
Archive for June, 2011
11 Jun
New Resource: “Unemployment Insurance Basics” Now Complete
The “Unemployment Insurance Basics” page is now complete. Its link will remain in the Resources section up top, plus in the Pages section to the right.
11 Jun
Why Washington Doesn’t Act to Create Jobs
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes this week, in “Rule by Rentiers,” that all the hoopla in Washington about the U.S. debt is a smokescreen for policies favoring the usual suspects: bankers and their wealthy bondholders. Krugman calls their Washington representatives the Pain Caucus. Those policies amount to Cuts, Cuts, and More Cuts, and [...]
11 Jun
Here Comes the “D” Word Again: Depression
Not since the Collapse of 2008 has the “D” word – Depression – been used this much in the media. The bank bailout and credit bailout and the stimulus money all served to bring us back from the dead, and by mid-2009 the “D” word had all but disappeared, replaced by the Great Recession. But [...]
4 Jun
Work It Up: A New Model for Job Groups?
Initiated in May 2009 by a group of unemployed project managers who met a the Portland, Maine, Career Center’s Unemployed Professionals Group, Work It Up is a nonprofit organization designed to address the “two halves of the broken economy”: unemployed professionals like themselves, and underfunded small businesses, nonprofits, and self-employed individuals. It does so by [...]
2 Jun
What’s Wrong – or Right – with This Picture?
Today I stumbled across UC Berkeley economist Brad DeLong’s blog, which had this chart in the header, but too small to read. So I clicked to see a larger version – the version you see here. It came from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It shows the ratio of civilian (not military) employment [...]
2 Jun
Coming Soon: A Primer on Unemployment Insurance
I am working on a new Resources page covering the basic rules of Unemployment Insurance, which I hope will help you know what to expect and avoid some of the pitfalls of the program. Although the program is legislated by Congress, it is administered by the states, and each state handles it a little differently. [...]
