Hopeydopeychangey
If only more of them would give up looking we could really get that unemployment rate down./sarc
This is the benefit to consumers of cheap imports.
How about if they just find a job, maybe a job that they don't "really want" but a job that pays bills and keeps them off the dole?
What percentage of jobs are unavailable due to illegal immigration? I realize many of the “unemployed” are too proud to lift a finger, but illegal immigration does have an impact on employment.
I’d like to see some figures on how many people over fifty have lost their jobs because of the economy - layoffs, closures, etc. How many in that category who have roots in their community, own a home, have kids or grand kids and other family in town, friends, church and so forth, are going to sell out and move away for a job in the last ten years of their working life? Who in hell wants to go back to school and try to start a whole new career?
If you want work you must feel this way. However when I was young and looking for work I took what ever I could get. Washing dishes, traveling photographer, wiping butts in a hospital, digging ditches, sweeper in a fabricating shop, what ever.
Let’s add to that those of us who are resigned to be underemployed.
According to the Weekly Standard version of this report, only 20 percent of the unemployed are receiving unemployment benefits.
Come to Annapolis, Maryland. We need workers bad! We have so many help wanted signs around it is crazy. Move to Maryland NOW. That is if these folks are serious about working and not just running their mouths.
So amnesty and additional foreign workers will fix this problem?? Some dim congress critters are so stupid, their brains must have a few gray matter cells accidently crashing into each other once a month.
I am 56, worked on Wall street and have been out of work since October 2012. I worked in NY and live in NJ so I file unemployment in NY. My benefits were halted in November 2013. I apply for many jobs online, most of which I would be a good fit for and I would invite in for an interview back in the day.
I can count the number of interviews I have had. On less than 2 hands. Only one 2-interview situation that had a couple former colleagues already there that I thought would be a good fit. Haven’t heard back since my second interview in June 2013. I haven’t given up but it is very discouraging trying the same thing over and over with many applications on all the popular job sites and directly at corporate sites and not hearing anything back at all — I appreciate (although it still hurts) when a company makes the effort to send a rejection. I know that it has gotten through the filters somewhere even though I don’t get to talk to a live human.
The economy is in bad shape. If a Republican takes the WH in 2016 count on the media to say how bad things are economically, but that is the only way for things to improve. 0bama’s economic policies need to be reversed and replaced by pro -job policies.
I think this is the first poll in many, many months that I can actually believe...