Posted on 11/06/2011 7:29:55 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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.
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I have absolutely no idea what your talking about. In addition, you're in violation of the rules here, just bringing some obscure post up which has zip to do with this thread.
This is clearly a deceitful, distracting evasive move on your part.
But if you want to ping me to whatever the hell thread your talking about, I'll be more than happy to meet ya over there and debate you, any day of the week.
So post the link already. Or STFU!
(Inquiring minds want to know (and are too lazy to google))
Lets look at this.
6 openings for simple clerk jobs... 50 applicants but none had the right attitude to be a clerk? And then you suggest the unemployed don't want to work. Not to mention the fact you also stated, "After 50 applicants, "The number of applicants are less than expected".
There are so many inconsistencies in your concocted comment, it's absurd at best.
So you cannot make up the difference of 6 clerks and 50 applicants and think it’s not possible.
LOL!
lol...Thank you...As I have not a clue what this person is talking about.
I hear you DustyMoment, two people I am close to are long term unemployed, out of unemployment insurance. They are both in their 50s. They each have had maybe five interviews in two years.
Another relative is also looking, still getting his unemployment but is 60 and has had three interviews. No job offers.
These folks have decent to good education, good work history, good skills, no criminal/drug problem, and really want work. But, no dice.
“but none had the right attitude to be a clerk? “
I was wondering the same thing - what kind of attitude do they want, exactly?
Maybe they’re looking for out of work, senior nuclear scientist for clerk positions at Rite Aid
You’re so right. So many in here ascribe it all to laziness. It really truly sucks out there.
Vacation's over. Back to work!
Theres some weird thought process goes on with many here who somehow equate mocking the unemployed as making them a better conservative. Its bizarre,its obscene and it makes me ill to read their posts.
But another factor, and I think a major one, is people in (formerly) two income households who tighten the belt and learn to live on one income for an indefinite period. Recessions haven't been behaving the way they used to, and the lagging recovery of employment numbers is one of the symptoms. If your spouse works and you lose your job, it's painful ... BUT. You have more time to look for a good job in your field, and don't have to settle right away. It's more difficult to move, since you don't want to uproot the working spouse. You probably have a substantial backlog of things that need to get done around the house and can use some serious time off. And before you know it, a year has gone by.
A friend of mine went through this five or six years ago. He was out of work long enough that we had all begun to worry. He had turned down a couple of things that were beneath his target. He was finally running out of the deferred maintenance jobs at home. The good job finally came through, and we all breathed a sigh of relief. I just wonder how widespread this is in an era of two income families; especially among the middle-aged middle class, I expect it's fairly common.
If you can deal with the mortgage (or are willing to downsize), one of the jobs in a two-income middle class family can be sacrificed in a pinch.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
A shocking unknown% of them have exhausted those benefits more than once, but they’ve been extended each time.
Meanwhile, I live in Upstate NY. And I can’t count the number of help wanted signs I’ve seen around here and the Northern Tier of PA lately. Go figger.
I’ve been looking for 1.5 years. I looked the day after I got home from the hospital from my fractured spine. I am still in a ton of pain and looking for a job. NO JOBS OUT THERE not even part time. I have had ONE interview out of 3000 applications.
Finally, a job he’s qualified for.
RE: And I can’t count the number of help wanted signs I’ve seen around here and the Northern Tier of PA lately.
Just curious, what skills are these employers looking for?
The universe divided
As the heart and mind collided
With the people left unguided
For so many troubled years
In a cloud of doubts and fears
Their world was torn asunder
Into hollow hemispheres
It is beginning to make sense.
“Maybe they’re looking for out of work, senior nuclear scientist for clerk positions at Rite Aid”
. . . with that Rite Aid attitude. . .
If I can be honest, these people are 100 percent FOS.
The whole point is to overwhelm the system.
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