Posted on 11/05/2011 1:45:43 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AP) — The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America's unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.
Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America's 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.
Congress is expected to decide by year's end whether to continue providing emergency unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in the hardest-hit states. If the emergency benefits expire, the proportion of the unemployed receiving aid would fall further.
The ranks of the poor would also rise. The Census Bureau says unemployment benefits kept 3.2 million people from slipping into poverty last year. It defines poverty as annual income below $22,314 for a family of four.
Yet for a growing share of the unemployed, a vote in Congress to extend the benefits to 99 weeks is irrelevant. They've had no job for more than 99 weeks. They're no longer eligible for benefits.
Their options include food stamps or other social programs. Nearly 46 million people received food stamps in August, a record total. That figure could grow as more people lose unemployment benefits.
So could the government's disability rolls. Applications for the disability insurance program have jumped about 50 percent since 2007.
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Also remember that those no longer looking for work aren’t counted either.
They (fedgov) made some changes to the numbers this year and how they calculate unemployment. In Obama’s favor, and it’s still at 9%. I think the real rate is 16-19% range.
Cut all federal funding to local governments, all social programs that interfere with families and public education. Hundreds of thousands of employees and pensioners of all levels of government should be laid off. Those are the real parasites.
During the summer we need a graphic designer and we posted the per hour rate which was $19...if you are “good”.
I interviewed myself more than 20, and we eventually hired 5 in total? WHY? The first 4 were a bunch of pampered libs who wanted us to cater to their needs and screwed around when no one was looking.
One even wanted me to PICK THEM UP FOR THE INTERVIEW because his car “was parked at his girlfriend’s house”. Unbelievable..
———Good attendance is a MUST!
Drug screen and background check required-——
oops that’s a turnoff. do you mean every day?
Really? /s
Do they still count as unemployed in the 9% statistic?
They probably aren’t paying enough. That’s generally why these positions go unfilled.
Yeah, I had a boss like that once, real jerk.
He wouldn’t hire anybody who was unemployed. Then he got mad when one of the applications that he was looking at was for someone who was qualified, but had covered over an unemployed period.
He asked me what I thought about it, and I told him, that I thought it was a good idea to advertise that you are willing to hire folks who are at present unemployed. You would be a hope in bleak times for many folks struggling.
I got canned. Don’t ask my opinion if you don’t want it.
Why aren’t you screening out liberals? That’s your problem right there.
We did, believe me. We were as ‘subtle’ as can be without asking direct questions like “who did you vote for in 2008?”
Finding politically like-minded people, even employees in a super BLUE city is like looking for Obama’s BC...
I feel your pain.
I had a horse/cattle farm for a number of years. I mowed, raked, baled and bucked lots of hay. And did all of the other labor intensive work that goes with it. Fencing, irrigation pipe repair, electrical repair, rounding up runaway cows, loading them up and transporting them to market, building cow barns, horse shelters, pasture management, taking care of the sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and feeding all of the other critters. I loved it! Never picked cotton and ain’t interested in doing so. If it were a choice between eating and not, I’d pick cotton and anything else that needed picking. If I had a dollar for every bale I bucked, horse I wrangled or cow I wrassled I could buy a brand new, all whistles, 4 wheel drive, F550 diesel, king cab, 8 foot bed, man truck and have enough left over to buy all the anesthetic scotch I’d need after doing that work. LOL!
for ten bucks an hour?
they want people to work graveyard shifs, do strenuous labor in inhospitable temps, submit to drug screens, own a cell phone, and steel toe boots for a measly $10/hour???
DUDE! that’s a $14/hour job description!
If I was unemployed I’d tell those jerks to * off.
I’m guessing that your point is that there is work if people will take it. I’ve been hearing that from other sources as well. Too many folks want $20 and hour and medical or they won’t bother. We pay them not to work.
I’m going out on a limb here and guessing that you were being sarcastic.
why the hell would you care who they voted for? If they do good work its none of your business if they vote at all or worship the devil.
not even.
I hire unemployed felons for $12/hour because the work is strenuous and filthy. If they show up on time and don’t complain about hard labor, and don’t mind doing a 60hour work week once in awhile when necessary, the rest is unimportant. These ads make me want to puke.
“why the hell would you care who they voted for? If they do good work its none of your business if they vote at all or worship the devil.”
I actually do care. I hate liberals and prefer to give that job to unemployed Freepers than pay a Dem, who will eventually use that salary we pay to fork over money to the DNC who will in turn F*** conservatives in Congress.
Well, if they pay too low they won’t get the help. Evidently, unemployment pays more which I believe is ridiculous.
you make me sick. seriously.
this is a free country you sick bastard. they can vote for whoever they want and it is none of your dam business. Voting for the wrong guy is not a crime and should not be any part of your interview. I hope you get sued to oblivion.
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