RE: I didn’t see the article mention anything about the culpability of the long term unemployed person in this whole equation.
What does “culpability” mean?
Fault, blame, responsibility - normally used in situations where all of these are shared.
That is a very good question. The assumption seems to be that the long term unemployed are all lazy and don’t really want or feel that they need a job. I’ve known a lot of people who are in that category and they will take any job including some who haul garbage, work day labor, sling french fries and try their best to land even an entry level job. Not hiring qualified unemployed only plays in the our socialist dictator’s plans to force as many as possible onto the welfare rolls. Where else will they go? Are they going to starve and let their families starve? Too many on these forums will say that the unemployed today are too lazy to go out and find a job when the truth is there are many less jobs today than six years ago and hiring managers generally won’t hire or consider even qualified applicants because they are long term unemployed. When we reach a certain level of unemployment then there won’t be enough consumers who can afford to pay for the goods and services that these companies and their hiring managers provide which puts many of them out of employment.
The article points out no statistical difference has been found in performance or longevity in the job once hired.
The economy of the last few years has put a lot of very qualified people out of full time jobs with companies. Unfortunately the HR departments exercising such bias has exacerbated the problem. Add to this the unfortunate situation of being a white male over 50 and your doomed - so just have to find a way to be self employed. And that is not an easy proposition.
that it is their own fault