There are still many unemployed who want to work, and have been consistently sending out resumes for many years and mostly not even getting an interview.
Some have college degrees. Some have drug or other arrenst/conviction records. But many have clean records, never touched drugs. Many have bad credit scores...what would you expect when unemployed so long? Some are Black, some Hispanic, some white, some male, some female.
They are discriminated against #1 for bad credit score. #2 for being unemployed so long. #3 for arrest/conviction record. #4 doesn’t matter. I know some who try to use the affirmative action route. It isn’t working for them.
There are many jobs where a person’s credit score is irrelevant. More often than not, the HR department is a bigger block to hiring than the manager that has the vacancy. The HR department has “Policies”. It takes many years to update those policies.
Yep. This is all very true. I’ve never understood the “logic” that if you have a gap in your employment record...say if you were out of work for a year or more even in the midst of THE worst economy in 3 generations....that somehow means you are now damaged and/or worthless and we should never hire you. That’s just stupid. If anything, somebody like that is probably very hungry for work and would be eager to do a good job. Yet that is exactly how many employers treat it.
The economy has really picked up in the last 6 months. My income has gone up 20% in the last year. But there are still people out there who are fully capable and who are qualified and still need a job. The labor market participation rate will go back up if the good economy persists. Many of those who the government claims “gave up” did no such thing - they were just long term unemployed during the Great Recession.
Sounds like excuses to me.