Majority of Unemployed Have Now Been Out of Work So Long They No Longer Get Benefits
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Job seekers check for employment opportunities. The majority of America's unemployed have been out of work so long they no longer qualify for unemployment benefits. (AP File Photo)
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.
Congress is expected to vote by the end of the year on whether to continue providing emergency benefits for the hardest-hit states. (AP File Photo)
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.
Their options include food stamps or other social programs. Nearly 46 million people received food stamps in August, a record total. That figure could grow as more people lose unemployment benefits.
So could the government’s disability rolls. Applications for the disability insurance program have jumped about 50 percent since 2007.
“There’s going to be increased hardship,” said Wayne Vroman, an economist at the Urban Institute.
The number of unemployed has been roughly stable this year. Yet the number receiving benefits has plunged 30 percent.
Government unemployment benefits weren’t designed to sustain people for long stretches without work. They usually don’t have to. In the recoveries from the previous three recessions, the longest average duration of unemployment was 21 weeks, in July 1983.
By contrast, in the wake of the Great Recession, the figure reached 41 weeks in September. That’s the longest on records dating to 1948. The figure is now 39 weeks.
“It was a good safety net for a shorter recession,” said Carl Van Horn, an economist at Rutgers University. It assumes “the economy will experience short interruptions and then go back to normal.”
Weekly unemployment checks average about $300 nationwide. If the extended benefits aren’t renewed, growth could slow by up to a half-percentage point next year, economists say.
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that each $1 spent on unemployment benefits generates up to $1.90 in economic growth. The CBO has found that the program is the most effective government policy for increasing growth among 11 options it’s analyzed.
Jon Polis lives in East Greenwich, R.I., one of the 20 states where 99 weeks of benefits are available. He used them all up after losing his job as a warehouse worker in 2008. His benefits paid for groceries, car maintenance and health insurance.
Now, Polis, 55, receives disability insurance payments, food stamps and lives in government-subsidized housing. He‘s been unable to find work because employers in his field want computer skills he doesn’t have.
“Employers are crying that they can’t find qualified help,” he said. But the ones he interviewed with “weren’t willing to train anybody.”
From late 2007, when the recession began, to early 2010, the number of people receiving unemployment benefits rose more than four-fold, to 11.5 million.
But the economy has remained so weak that an analysis of long-term unemployment data suggests that about 2 million people have used up 99 weeks of checks and still can’t find work.
Contributing to the smaller share of the unemployed who are receiving benefits: Some of them are college graduates or others seeking jobs for the first time. They aren’t eligible. Only those who have lost a job through no fault of their own qualify.
The proportion of the unemployed receiving benefits usually falls below 50 percent during an economic recovery. Many have either quit jobs or are new to the job market and don’t qualify.
Today, the proportion is falling for a very different reason: Jobs remain scarce. So more of the unemployed are exhausting their benefits.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has noted that the long-term unemployed increasingly find it hard to find work as their skills and professional networks erode. In a speech last month, Bernanke called long-term unemployment a “national crisis” that should be a top priority for Congress.
Lawmakers will have to decide whether to continue the extended benefits by the end of this year. If the program ends, nearly 2.2 million people will be cut off by February.
Congress has extended the program nine times. But it might balk at the $45 billion cost. It will be the first time the Republican-led House will vote on the issue.
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Comments (176)
Seede
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:39pmYou got twenty million illegals here or so the nimrod says. Get rid of them and shut the borders down. Then you have more than enough jobs. Block the imports and force the greedy corps back to America or sink. Open up the energy independence and you’ll have corps begging for workers. No excuse at all from DC. I don’t buy into this BS at all.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:02pmI have to tell you, the highest unemployment insurance benefit paid out in my state doesn’t even come to $19k for a year. But it only pays out a 6 month benefit, too. Far below the “poverty” line (~$4k in real numbers). $4k is approximately 20% of the money we are talking about. That’s huge in terms of percentage of gross income for anyone. But for someone at this end of the economic ladder it’s particularly difficult. But then the real question comes up; do we really want to carry the rest of society on the backs of the successful?
If, as a society, we decide that we need to carry the lazy, the incompetent, the stupid, the incapable for what ever reason, then we need to come up with a way that is up front about it. Not some behind the scenes roundy round of some other system never intended for that purpose in the first place. That only promotes fraud, waste and corruption. The good news is; we only have 3 of those.
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:17pmRuler- I don’t understand why UC should pay $19K a year- please explain why it should. UC isn’t supposed to replace your yearly wages, nor should it. It’s supposed to assist in keeping you afloat while looking for another job. Too, all those who‘re losing UC aren’t necessarily the lazy incompetants, yet most those interviewed definitely are.
Report Post »An added benefit of UC is the opportuity to attend school or classes to enhance job-skills or retrain for other employment. Why are these people waiting 99 weeks to find an emoployer who’ll train them to do a job? Because they‘re the lazy incompetants everyone’s raging about.
Tammy_Beth
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:15pmnonsense. Re-training is not free, and if UC is marginal income designed to keep you afloat, that doesn’t include thousands for training (particularly for those who’ve already used up regular financial aid for their first career).
There’as WIA money (some of the smartest money in the whole government budget and thus, obviously, some of the first cut) but WIA has long waiting lists of more people applying than funds available.
and even if you did find a way to just arbitrarily re-train – how do you know which job? let’s say they tell you “there’s dozens of openings around her for welders” – so, quite naturally, 500 unemployed men go learn how to weld – and 4/5 of them find out when they get done that the market is no saturated with welders.
my own degree is in teaching, and all i hard for years before and during college is “we desperately need teachers!!!” – well, as it turns out they didn’t specify “everything but social studies teachers” and i graduated only to find there are a dozen or more SS teachers applying for every job. i put in over 100 applications for four consecutive years and got ONE interview, not one job – one INTERVIEW.
Now I share some blame in the choice if field, but the point is – for an unemployed person who says “I think i’ll learn to…” – even if he does everything right he might well throw away a couple of thousand dollars to get training that still doesn’t get him employed.
If employers offer training you avoid that.
Report Post »Absalom
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:31pmBut they will not work these positions. Some will but many of these OWS types will not. A friend of mine is a manager and people are wanting $14 an hour to work as a cashier. People have gotten beyond being resonable and they refuse the work if they cannot get paid what they unrealistically believe they should get paid. But then you have company’s who turn educated people away because they are too over qualified.
Abzz
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:37pmSo, I take it that with less and less unemployed being counted, Barry’s Unemployment stats will plummet. So, real unemployment numbers are 16+ % and rising, but his MSM buttboys and buttgirls, will report them as falling?
Report Post »libsdolie
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:10pmmy god man get a dam job even if fast food is beneath you it is bettter than sitting in your own stink at home blaming the economy and agreeing that Obama is the cure all. I am under 50 i have been on unemployment 2 times total for less than 3 monthes i took a pay cut from unemployment to work a retail job that was open in my area. i dont want to do it for ever but it makes me fell better than waiting for a check in the mail. someday i will get better job. I really believe it will be me that gets that job not Obama getting it for me………
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:10pmIt is so perverse this administration’s engineering to transform American to poverty.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 5:40amWell if it’s any consolation the same wicked family trees that built the system is the same wicked family trees that have the solution. That‘s comforting isn’t it?
Report Post »Wolf
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 9:19am@TammyBeth… so what if getting an education costs a few of your ‘hard earned’ UC bills? Every time I’ve been laid off from a job, I took a few classes to help pass the time as well as reinforce my skills. It’s a helluva lot better than sitting on your a$$ whining about how poor and pitiful you are. And your analogy of 500 welders is wrong as well: train 500 people to weld and they’l find work if they want a job, especially if they’re any good.
Report Post »Arr-dey
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 9:37am@Wolf Tammy Beth is talking about supply and demand. The 500 people who train to be welders cause the supply of welders in the market to increase. The market won’t be able to absorb them without driving down wages or filling the 400 positions originally available and leaving the other newly trained welders jobless.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 11:44amIts not a safety net, its a hammock….
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on November 7, 2011 at 11:50amI agree rounding up and exporting illegals will create jobs to find and remove illegals and create job openings when illegals are removed. They keep saying that you can’t find and export 20,000,000 illegals There are 350,000,000 Legal Americans that’s 17.5 American for every 1 illegal in the country if 1 in 17.5 citizen would do their duty and report illegals it wouldn’t take long to export them.
Report Post »And if NAFTA was repealed we could place tariffs on imports and creates the necissity to build in America
CatB
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:38pmJon Polis lives in East Greenwich, R.I., one of the 20 states where 99 weeks of benefits are available. He used them all up after losing his job as a warehouse worker in 2008. His benefits paid for groceries, car maintenance and health insurance.
Now, Polis, 55, receives disability insurance payments, food stamps and lives in government-subsidized housing. He‘s been unable to find work because employers in his field want computer skills he doesn’t have.
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In those 99 weeks he couldn’t get computer training? So now he is on disablity because he didn’t get computer skills? Give me a d*mn break .. get off your arse and go back to school .. they offer training and you can get a loan or grant .. at least you won’t be a useless drag on society after .. of course now I guess he is “set for life” having the taxpayers support him!
I was divorced in the 1980′s recession and went to college and got a computer degree .. and I had never turned on a computer before I went! I supported myself and my son … the government (friend of the court — what a joke) would not help me go after his deadbeat dad who had gone to another state .. I will NOT be dependent on Government!
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:29pmNOTE: The kind of computer training employers want costs money and is NOT cheap. Inexpensive programs range from a couple hundred to a few thousand dollars, and high-demand programs can cost tens of thousands of dollars. These programs can take months, or even years to complete. Also, many employers want certifications in 2 or more of these programs.
Report Post »Dunchaka
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 7:50pmTrue CATB!
I graduated with a BS in psychology, but started doing computer repair around the neighborhood. I went back to the local junior college and got my associates in computer technology. I took the time, paid the cost, and learned the side of computers I was lacking in.
In the 4 years since I graduated I have made almost $250K. If 1 person can do it, then so can anyone else!!!!
As for WBALZLEY, yes they’re expensive and time consuming. But it’s exactly because of that that not everyone can do them. It’s exactly because of that the related jobs pay so well. It’s called SKILLED LABOR.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:51pm@Dunchaka I am glad things worked out well for you. As for me, I am still trying to get a start on life. Right now I am going for a Masters in Software Engineering, and working to start a part-time online business while I do it. My goal is to make enough to pay for the $200k of DEBT I will have when I graduate in 2014. Wish me luck!
Report Post »Dunchaka
Posted on November 8, 2011 at 12:33pmFirst – Speaking from practical experience, a master‘s degree in software engineering won’t mean anything in job market. It looks nice and it might make someone look at you, but the person that can do the job will get the job.
Second – I‘ve been in the IT business for 15 years and I can tell you the master’s degree in software engineering will never pay for itself. You’ll make the same money with an associates, some of the more desirable certifications, and lots of experience. If I’m going to hire someone, their practical experience always trumps a college degree.
Third – As for 200K for you masters? BIG, BIG, BIG waste. I’m speaking for myself, but I’ve made more in 4 years than it will take you to pay this loan off in 20 years! After 200K for a masters in software engineering, you might as well have a degree in meso-american basket weaving.
Hey, improve yourself. Make your own success. But understand that spending 200K for that degree is a bad investment. However much you earn in your life, know that you could have had 170K more when it’s all over with.
Report Post »Tammy_Beth
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:38pmReposting this as i don’t want it to get buried:
you can arrogantly assume all, or even most, are lazy people with too-high expectations, call them gold-bricks and leechs. you can cite your anecdote of some person who was in the right place at the right time, or knew someone on the inside and got back to work quick. Like so many other subjects here, nothing gives so much pleasure to Blazers as finding a herd of people they can look down on.
sure, people ought to get to it as long as the jobs are out there. The new Toyota plant near me hired 2,000 people.
that got 41,000 applications.
a gas station down the road had an opening for a part time job pumping gas in the 98 degree MS heat – and got over 200 applications.
Not everyone who can’t find work is a “gold brick” just so you know.
Even among those who are supposedly not looking, if you live in a rural area, you can exhaust every possible place to apply that you have any hope of qualifying for (i.e. you can’t apply for a nursing job without a nursing license, for instance) in easily less than six months, then what? you can spend a certain amount of time re-asserting your interest but there’s a limit to how much time you can fill just looking.
it must be nice to have a job so you can condescend to everyone who doesn’t. I hope karma bites you in the ass for that.
Report Post »dogdr
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:01pmPeople here need to be reminded that the plural of anecdotes is NOT fact. I don’t care how many stories you have heard about businesses not being able to find workers or unemployed people not even trying to find work. They exist of course. Liars, cheaters, deadbeats…… all exist but to lump all unemployed people into that category is not just ignorant and mean spirited, it is FALSE. There are 5 unemployed people for every available job. I’m sure all of you (or have been told) about lazy unemployed people but I know 2 mechanical engineers, 1 computer programmer and I have a cousin with a brand new MBA. NONE of these people want handouts. NONE are uneducated and all of them would take just about anything for some help. Even Mcdonalds (every uninformed persons example of available jobs) reports they had over 42 applicants for every available job. Even with your ignorance of the situation and disdain for those less fortunate, I sincerely hope none of you who are so quick to pass judgment on people you don’t even know end up unemployed and unable to find a job. A bit of empathy is order here.
Report Post »designbyinspiration
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:01pmMy issue is they are being rather uncreative and dependant. I was out of work after 9/11 for 9mos. I too saw piles of applications on desks for a single position. Knew several other people in the same straights and we started chatting about our skills. Found we had most positions of a design house in the room, scouted for the missing pieces and voila. 11 years running. A new business started on unemployment can undercut most any existing business to get established. Stop depending on others to provide a path for your family. Do the American thing.. which is the same as the Marine thing: Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome! Time to create people.
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:38pm@ TAMMY_BETH. If you were laid off through no fault of your own you can apply for WIA. Workforce Investment Act. It started around 1930. First go to FAFSA.com and see if you can get a federal aid grant for tuition at a close-by technical college. Take the course of your or your advisors choosing. Once you start school, you can apply for WIA. There may be a waiting list. But once you get in they’ll pay for gas, and other things that aren’t covered through FAFSA. It’s a good program that is not widely known about. Good Luck and Best Wishes.
Report Post »Exiled
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 3:11amDogDR: But you‘re saying that your highly qualified friends couldn’t find a job, ANY job, even after 99 weeks!?
Report Post »Arr-dey
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 9:50am@Exiled – that is probably true. What do you think an over-qualified employee is going to do while working the cash register at McDonald’s or working as an Asst. Manager at Walgreens? That person is going to continue to look in their field and leave at the first opportunity. Why wouldn’t they, when they have skills that pay more than they are making at some low-level job.
Hiring managers take that into account when making a decision about whom to select to fill the job.
Report Post »JoeFriday
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:37pmJust the facts………after 2 years on unemployment they have learned all the tricks to dupe SSI and whatever other entitlements are out there, the sad part is they learn it from social workers on the government dole.
I have never taken a dime from any government program, I’m 51 and have not held a full time job for over 4 years, I’m a NEWpublican a husband a father and a staunch protector of the future tax payers of America.
Report Post »Laus Deo’
COFemale
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:09pmGood for you, not everyone is so lucky. You must remember your location is different than everyone else. Don’t be a schmuck!
Report Post »Dabldo
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 11:10pmAnd me. 25 years continuous employment at a small company nonunion job in electronics. Suddenly unemployed. After 8 months unemployed, dropped myself in the lap of my companies former competitor to be reasonably sure I would be employed. Chrismas present to them, hellovva pay cut for me. Better than unemployment though. Someones gotta pay for unemployment benifits for everyone else. They had a hell of a discussion if they could swing another employee. Their on voluntary 4 day work week and carfully losing people still. It’s real fun out there.
Report Post »Arr-dey
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 9:51amYou are an inspiration! How have you been supporting your family without a full-time job?
Report Post »rockstone
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:36pm“Employers are crying that they can’t find qualified help,” he said. But the ones he interviewed with “weren’t willing to train anybody.”
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww…..
(sniff)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:39pmNo he had 99 weeks to go get training in … why should they!
Report Post »Tammy_Beth
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:05pmGet training for which job? all of them? is this training free?
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:32pmShorten the period. People need to be motivated to find work, even if they must move to a less Socialist state.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 6:01pmMoving to another state does not always work. I moved from Iowa to Texas and found that the job market was not any better than before. The move cost nearly $3,000, wiped out all our savings, and put us into debt.
Fortunately, my wife was able to get work with an online company called Alpine Access, and I was able to get into a Masters program online. This, combined with the low cost of living in Texas (no State Tax is nice) allows us to just get by.
Report Post »DADA
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:26pmSo moving did help as you just explained.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 12:10am@Dada: My point was that moving was expensive, and even after moving we were not able to find work here in Texas. The company my wife works for is based out of Utah. We came here to find work, and found NONE. We found our opportunities ONLINE..
Not everyone has the resources to move to another state, and even if they do there is no guarantee that they will find work. Just because a state has lower taxes and less unemployment does not mean that you will be better off moving there. For us it worked out alright, but we also have been blessed in ways others may not.
Report Post »Grace1798
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:32pmDon’t count them out……Obama will renew their benefits till he can get their VOTE then IF he gets reelected, he will throw them under the bus. He won’t care then, he’s got his full time to bring a final desolation of the United States. Woe unto those who have helped him do it because they will answer to God for every person who has suffered as a result.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:45pmNot so sure, if all those people are no longer getting benifits, they no longer count as unemployed, thus a lower number of unemployed, which would look good for Obama.
Report Post »eutawangel
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 5:20amPerhaps true…but I suspect some of the reason we as a nation are going through this & may completly fall is a lack of ‘Christians’ in America to stand up (in many different ways from birth of nation to now) for God & His Lordship as we should have.
Report Post »knighttemplar999
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:28pmUnemployment insurance is pure socialism. Those lazy bums should get absolutely nothing and they should be made to pay back every penny they leeched off of us hard workers.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:34pm3 months maximum time.
Not all unemployeed are lazy bums, but people will take as much as you give them.
Report Post »Pancy Nelosi
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:43pmUnemployment insurance is not socialism. It is funded by your employers based upon a percentage of payroll which is based upon how many people you have layed off. It is typically only funded on average for about 6 months. It only becomes a welfare payment after it has run out and the politicians vote an extension.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:45pmSince Americas economy needs about 125k+ jobs a month just to keep up with attrition when the economy is at full employment, (~5% unemployment) I’m guessing, that when jobs are on the minus side of that number, we are going backwards.
I’ve been through 6 recessions that were large enough to cause large companies to lay off their valuable employees (and a few others). This one is by far the largest, but the early ‘80’s was bad, also. I’ve been unemployed since Dec 2008.
Benefits. Gone.
Jobs. Gone. I mean entire markets in my area, gone.
Savings. Gone.
Investments. Gone.
Possessions. Still have some of those.
Without a job you can’t qualify for a “mortgage modification”. Banks don’t want to talk to you. No one does. But my record of longevity, tenure with exceptional companies, on time delivery, accomplishments, attitude and skill meant nothing when your number comes up.
Report Post »44th Streaming Widget?
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 8:12pmAnd what area of the buisness sector have you made your living in? And how has 3 years of obama impacted it?
Report Post »eutawangel
Posted on November 6, 2011 at 5:22amYou sound mean & ridiculous…digging your own hole plus money ‘is’ deducted from pat for this ‘insurance’…lol
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:24pmThey need to extend the benefits for about another 18 months…just long enough to get Obama out of the white house and (whoever) from the republican party in.
Day one: Repeal Obama care
Report Post »Day two: Triple taxes and all other fees on companys who sold out America and moved jobs out of the country
Day three: Offer 5 tax free years, and 5 deferred tax years for 10 years to any business employing 250 employees or more to come back to the usa.
Day four: Abolish the tax code. No exemptions, no breaks, no loop holes…flat tax. And guess what entitlement crowd, your gross will stay the same, but your net will be less because you are going to pony up your share of the taxes as well.
Day five: Kick every czar to the curb…and then stomp on them.
Day six: Bring all troops home from the middle east and africa.
Day seven: Give the UN back the key to the mens room and say “beat it bub!”
Day eight: Hello world…foriegn aid just stopped…too bad, so sad!
Day nine: Meet with Netanyahu, shake his hand for all the world to see and declare “The usa has got your back.”
Day ten: Walk through every airport in the us and hand every tsa employee their final paycheck and an application to McDonalds.
Day eleven: New port fees include confiscating every shipping container coming into the USA from other countries.
Day twelve: All confiscated shipping containers get moved to the US/Mecico border and get stacked 3 high, the entire length of the border and get welded together. Then fille
jakartaman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:53pmAlmighty,
I am on board ! Good start
Like to see any Judge that legislates from the bench removed.
Eliminate dept of energy, epa, interior, education, etc
zero based budgets for all agencies/dept.
Constitutional balanced budget amendment
Think we are all on the same page
Report Post »Nod
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:50pmRight on the money!!!
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:23pmYet people still support the Obamanation. Some people will just never get it.
Report Post »Enchanted
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:18pmI realize this does not fit everyone, but a large majority. IF the job is not what the person wants, or is in their career field they won’t take it. So instead of going out and looking for a job, they sit back and wait for someone to knock on their door and offer their dream job with a dream salary.
My daughter lost her job and it took her less than a month to find another. AND this is in Florida where the unemployment is one of the highest in the nation. No it is not her dream job and doesn’t pay what she should be making, but it is an honest job that pays the bills. Don’t let ego get in the way, if the job is honest and pays money take it. Use it to build experience and continue to look for a better job. Who knows you might find it in that company.
The bottom line is the government does not owe you a job, a car or a house. That is up to you.
Report Post »Pancy Nelosi
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:31pmA most Excellent comment!
I too lost my job in June of 2010. It took me 2 months to land another job. Fortunately for me it was within my career path, however I had to take a 40% reduction in salary from my last job and I now have to spend a minumum of 3 hours (sometimes over 4) per day commuting and I get no benefits other than the 6 normal paid holidays. I am just happy to still be working.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:42pmENCHANTED how come the crooks in the government get the jobs they want but we don`t
Report Post »Joyzee
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:13pmFire-Obama!..get a job.
Report Post »davuf
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:09pmLook, they probably share some of the blame for their unemployment, but this is also the worst economy of our lifetimes. These people are a ticking time bomb. As the lose benefits they will fuel the OWS protests, consumption will decline, theft and begging should rise. People will precieve the misery much more accutely as these peopleare forced into the streets. Bottom line, until an economic plan is enacted to spur the economy it won‘t help anyone for these people’s benefits to expire.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:29pmAnother Government program ? For Gods sake man. The Government just needs to get off of the Investors A$$ and we would be O.K. again. We haven’t tried that yet. Maybe now is the time ?
Report Post »urfree2b4now
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 9:33pmThe word ‘intentional’ comes to mine.
Report Post »TJexcite
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:07pmJust wait in no time the unemployment rate will go down. As people drop off the unemployment rolls and are not looking for work, as they don’t need to as a requirement of getting benefits. Oh and at the same time food stamps will clime to 20% will be on food stamps.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:57pmIn Florida they do. If you go one week without looking for work and listing it, they’ll call you. I know two fellow ex-coworkers this has already happened to. One had to pay back money he collected for a week he had a flu and could not look for work, because he checked the box that said “Did NOT look for work” but claimed the week anyhow. The other did not list them for two weeks and they almost cancelled him. He had to call them and on the phone go over the jobs he looked for during the two weeks giving the references, web IDs etc. for each one. Five applications per week minimum. He said the woman on the phone was as stupid as a brick and asked her if there where any openings in her office. She said no. He asked her if he could list that as a job search and her as a reference. She said no again.
May be different where you are.
Report Post »Robert999
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:59pmNow they are without unemployment payments these gold bricks will have to get off their azzes and really look for work.
Report Post »Tammy_Beth
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:24pmsure, as long as the jobs are out there. the new Toyota plant near me hired 2,000 people.
that got 41,000 applications.
a gas station down the road had an opening for a part time job pumping gas in the 98 degree MS heat – and got over 200 applications.
Not everyone who can’t find work is a “gold brick” just so you know.
Even among those who are supposedly not looking, if you live in a rural area, you can exhaust every possible place to apply that you have any hope of qualifying for (i.e. you can’t apply for a nursing job without a nursing license, for instance) in easily less than six months, then what? you can spend a certain amount of time re-asserting your interest but there’s a limit to how much time you can fill just looking.
it must be nice to have a job so you can condescend to everyone who doesn’t. I hope karma bites you in the ass for that.
Report Post »Robert999
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 6:18pmAs Herman Cain said: “If you don’t have a job, it’s your fault.”
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:58pmDo I understand this correctly? Because the “bleeding hearted” authorized the Unemployed to receive Unemployment Benefits at the Tax Payers expense… and those Benefits have expired after some period of time… it is now up to the Government (We, the people) to Refill the Teat or create a Job for the Idle… otherwise the Disenfranchised will cause Trouble!
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:25pmOnce Obamanation is out of office, the economy will flourish. The constant threat of regulation and raising taxes will go away, and investors will put their money back in the game. In a year, we’ll be electing a President. Once he’s gone, people will get back to work and won’t need unemployment anymore. Two problems will go away by this time next year.
Report Post »nohussein
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:54pmThings won‘t improve until the hussein is 86’d in 2012.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:11pmThe real problem is: if Mr Insane can cause this much trouble while Posing as a Righteous Man… what will he do in the 3 Months between Election Results and Replacement?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:13pmI agree .. and when defeated on November 6th .. the recovery will begin on Nov 7th ..
BTW doesn’t that mean that most if not all of these people are no longer counted in the unemployment number .. 9% my arse .. more like over 20%!
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:50pmLet the lazy and stupid starve to death. Good riddance.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 4:12pmYou first.
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:17pm@ COFEMALE
I agree. Trolls and progressives first!
Report Post »Founding Father2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:49pmWell If Romney is made President there will be more unemployed… but for a good reason. He pledged to layoff 10% of the inefficient federal employees workforce. Here is him talking about it: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2011/nov/romney_afp_event.html
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:53pmJust 10% – should be 60%
Report Post »Eliminate 3/4s of those do nothing agencies and departments and give the power back to the states.
If Palin was running you can bet you sweet one she would take an Alaskan chain saw to DC
In detroit
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:40pmLove how the blaze says speak your mind ,BUT!!! We need to screen your post
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:55pmGovernment is not the solution , it is the problem……. Ronald Reagen
Report Post »Cold War Vet
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 10:18pm@ DETROIT PAPERBOY
True then, and even MORE true now!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:40pmThis is what you get when you elect an amateur Socialist POTUS.
Report Post »He hates the job creators and business’s that are sitting on trillions but will not invest while this dope is in power.
also the little thingy about his obamacare, regulations etc and redistributing the wealth.
Barry missed the memo from Europe that Socialism does not work
In detroit
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:38pmAmen youngblood you are the man, said it all !!!!!
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:38pmIf Mr. Obama’s objective was to create an economic crisis similar to the crisis that allowed Hitler and Mussolini seize power, how would his agenda differ? President Obama’s economic system (cartoon): http://commonsense21c.com/CRONYISM.html
Report Post »In detroit
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:36pmI bet a great deal of these poeple voted for dumbo, well maybe some light reading next time , i was out of work for a year and a half in janet incompetanos arizona greatest state in the union completely fell under her leadership still hasnt recovered
Report Post »YoungBloodNews
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:34pmAnd the unemployment rate drops from 9.1 to 9.0 as more folks fall off the rolls.
People need to wake the $%^$ up! The government is LYING to you, how can we keep losing 400,000 jobs a week (1.5 mil a month) every month for years and things get better???
TELL US THE TRUTH, the real unemployment is well over 20% but people are too absorbed with Dancing with the stars to read into any of this. These are the same masses that voted for Obama, ’cause it was cool’ and they were easily swayed by a savy media campaign… Turn off the idiot box and turn on your mind, crack open a book, read about our founders! Please dont let your kids be babysat by the TV or raised in the public school system.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:49pmI am OLDBLOOD – over 65 – retired and agree 100%.
Report Post »Get the kids away from those stupid electronic games too
I told my wife – you want to raise good kids get them into sports and put them to bed physically tired.
Thank goodness my kids do it to my grandkids too now
Dustyluv
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 2:52pmI am feeling better because the Government teat suckers have been taken off the money nipple . Maybe they will wake up and start their own businesses like I have. Maybe someday there will be enough of us to finally go Gault. They will have to get out of their 2 year coma of Government money first.
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 5:48pm@Jakartaman Unfortunately, parents today use video-games the same way parents of the previous generation used TV; to keep the kids distracted while they do other things. It is easier to put a shiny noisemaker in front of the tykes than it is to deal with the incessant questions and cries for attention.
Parents forget that it is during this time their children learn the lessons and patterns they will carry throughout their lives. Then parents wonder why their children rebel and reject them as they grow into adult-hood. They wonder how their kids turned out so different from them.
Kids emulate what they see and hear regularly. You want to know what your kids will become? Look at who they spend their time with.
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