With 12.5 million unemployed Americans struggling to find work, one might assume a shortage of jobs is to blame. Not so, says a recent study publi...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.07.2012
Stay unemployed long enough, and you don't just bounce back once a job rolls around. People who have been out of work a long time tend to be unhapp...
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.27.2012
The House Budget Committee's latest draconian budget proposes even deeper cuts in the safety net while refusing to ask the rich and powerful to contribute their fair share. Indeed, it would give them more tax breaks at the expense of poor struggling families desperately trying to get back on their feet.
Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.23.2012
Three years ago today, an email popped into my inbox asking me to please step into my manager's office. There, a hired gun was waiting to tell me that my job as a nationally syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times was unceremoniously ending.
Del Phillips | Posted 04.25.2012
It's time to play hardball (and not with Chris Matthews). If we, the tax payers, are going to scratch the back of corporations by taking on more of the burden they will not be paying, they need to scratch ours.
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Posted 02.23.2012
This is a teen-written article from our friends at L.A. Youth, a nonprofit organization that uses media as a tool for young people to examine themselv...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 02.16.2012
WASHINGTON -- The maximum duration of unemployment insurance would gradually fall from 99 weeks to 73 weeks over the course of the year under the payr...
Del Phillips | Posted 04.16.2012
We have applied to the online ads, attended the networking events, used social media and crafted multiple iterations of our resume based on each new blogger's opinion. There are even those of us attempting to gain additional skills. We're eager and ready to get back to work.
AP | By SHARON COHEN | Posted 02.12.2012
-- J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built. He helps pack his wife's lunch, downs some eggs o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.02.2012
College graduates and advanced degree holders, once they are unemployed, are as vulnerable as high school dropouts to long-term joblessness, a new stu...
NPR | Tamara Keith | Posted 12.30.2011
For the long-term unemployed, getting a job isn't always the end of the story. Randy Howland spent most of this past year working at a $10-an-hour ...
www.npr.org | Posted 12.23.2011
More than 40 percent of the long-term unemployed say they've received a lot of help from family and friends. But only 1 in 10 reports getting much hel...
The New York Times | Casey B. Mulligan | Posted 01.09.2012
It’s commonly assumed that unemployed people not receiving unemployment benefits have been unlucky enough to go without a job for so long that their...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 01.02.2012
For Baby Boomers who are out of a job, the picture isn't getting any brighter. People age 55 and older are still the most likely to be part of the ...
Susanne Goldstein | Posted 12.27.2011
If you're one of those middle-aged folks, who had a good job and are now frozen in time, here's a to-do list to help get yourself back in the game.
Joel Libava | Posted 12.05.2011
For those that were employed in executive-level positions, and have been out of work for a long-time, one increasingly popular option that's being looked at is franchise ownership. But is becoming the owner of a franchise business the answer?
Michael Thornton | Posted 11.18.2011
This American jobs disaster will not vanish if neglected, but what will vanish are the hopes, dreams and financial well-being of millions of hard-working Americans.
Mother Jones | Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman | Posted 11.12.2011
Not long ago, the city council of Ventura, California, passed an ordinance making it legal for the unemployed and homeless to sleep in their cars. At ...
Syreeta McFadden | Posted 11.09.2011
America is a young nation with old systems in play. All that American ingenuity we've been taught about has laid fallow for too long.
Michael Thornton | Posted 11.04.2011
Originally posted at AlterNet Where are the jobs? That question is on the minds of millions of Americans who have lost jobs during the Great Recessio...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.01.2011
Michael O'Leary, 45, hasn't stopped applying for jobs, but he has given up hope that he'll ever get one. Like many of the 6.2 million Americans out...
HuffingtonPost.com | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 10.31.2011
If anyone in America could plausibly claim immunity to the unemployment crisis, Joe Sangataldo figured to be the guy. He earned his wages at a county ...
Claudia Ricci | Posted 09.30.2011
With so many millions of people unemployed, and frantic to find jobs, companies are routinely flooded with applications for every open position. That flood gives employers the privilege to be very, very picky.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 09.11.2011
Employers are still discriminating against unemployed people in their online job ads despite an increase of scrutiny on hiring practices, a new report...
Michael Thornton | Posted 08.06.2011
Virgil's income has fallen from a high of more than $100,000 in 2003 to less than $20,000 today. His wants are simple; a full-time job and a place to call home.
The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 05.31.2012