This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author's own.

Health & Fitness

Unemployment Crisis

With congress not acting to fund the extension of unemployment benefits

1.3 million job seekers will be cut off Dec 28th and this will impact 4.9 million by the end of 2014. Much of the media coverage and bias political and economic chatter does not reflect the real numbers of people out of work.

Once you are off UE benefits you do not get counted in the UE rates that are cited.

Find out what's happening in Ferndalefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

As a jobs advocate (www.jobsadvocate.com) I know first hand working with these job seekers that the only solution is to create jobs and change attitudes towards the long-term unemployed.  

http://www.neighbors-helping-neighbors.com/unemployment-crisis.html

Find out what's happening in Ferndalefor free with the latest updates from Patch.

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/NeighborshelpingNeighbors-USA-3892534

Our web site was voted top 100 career site for 2013 by Forbes.com readers come see why www.nhnusa.org

 

 

The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Want to post on Patch?