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I have a friend who was laid off from my old company a few months before my dad lost his job. He's still out of work too. He's in his late 40s, but what he's finding is that companies want to hire some recent college grad for a third of what he used to make. |
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Best believe, though, he's out there looking still! But, now he won't have a gap. |
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Not every contracting job is advertised. It is often a result of extensive networking and marketing yourself to the right people/companies. This often comes from being seen (i.e. professional organizations, training sessions, talking about yourself more than some people feel comfortable doing including at seemingly random places, etc.) and not just composing and mailing off a lot of resumes. It goes back to, when it comes to getting in the door, "it isn't what you, it is who you know" and how you go about putting yourself out there.
There are mental health (and other fields of expertise) contractors in many cities who do unadvertised jobs for various mental health private and state-funded companies. They make a lot of money and lasting networks doing it. |
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Some people won't take a temp job or they'll take a temp job and treat it like a temp job. It's similar to work study jobs in undergrad and grad school. For a number of reasons, most students don't treat those jobs like they will ever result in fulltime pay with benefits or a career. |
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^^^I wasn't even going to say anything because I knew you'd be disappointed if you realized. :o
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Looks like the welfare checks will start getting written to folks on the dole for 2 years again. Ridiculous.
http://www.latimes.com/news/la-naw-j...0,442499.story |
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My dad on racism My sister on computers Kevin on being poor or unemployed |
Well first of all, just who was it that passed the pay-go legislation in the first place? I hate to burst your bubbles, but this legislation costs $34 million dollars, and that $34 billion will come straight from China.
I also want to point out this little gem from BO when he was passing that legislation: ""Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere." Then, upon passage of a previous jobless benefits extension, Obama had this to say: "It is fully paid for, and therefore is fiscally responsible."" Wouldn't that mean, then, that since this legislation is not "fully paid for," that it is not "fiscally responsible"? Democrats are only doing this to score cheap political points - at some point, benefits have to end. |
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He's saying that we have a President who has committed to not grow the deficit any more than he already has.
He's saying that this is costing $34 billion dollars, all of which are being borrowed. He's saying that those two things are bad and that at some point, the dole has to end. If the labor markets are to ever correct themselves, they must be allowed to do so. We could have a nice little discussion about how employers have all of the power in this economy because of things like the elimination of trade barriers and the relocation of manufacturing plants overseas. Maybe we can talk about capitalism run amok and what we can do to fix that. But to just dole out cash and pretend there aren't any underlying problems is about the least effective means of dealing with this issue imaginable. So we've gone well over 100 weeks now with some people. Should they continue to be eligible six months from now? A year from now? Two years? Where does it stop? |
How about economist studies that show for every dollar that is spent on the unemployed, $1.90 flows back into the economy acting as sort of a micro stimulus?
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