Stories Tagged as
Unemployed
Alaskans faced with the first recession in decades
Jul 13, 2016
The state has lost more than 2,000 jobs in the energy industry in the last year.
Rachel Waldholz/Alaska’s Energy Desk.
How we get to "full employment"
Jul 8, 2016
If the economy were to keep adding 287,000 jobs, month after month, most of those who have dropped out of the workforce would likely come back.
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Job growth strengthens, jobless rate ticks up to 6.7%
Mar 7, 2014
The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in February.
The part-time clouds in a jobs report of blue skies
Jul 5, 2013
Part-time workers dampen the otherwise good numbers in the Labor Department's monthly jobs snapshot.
Jobs for youth today spares economic burden tomorrow
May 27, 2013
Could the government solve the youth unemployment problem?
The sequester cuts and a steelworker's job prospects
by
Kai Ryssdal
May 2, 2013
It's been nearly a year since Richard Crowe was laid off from his job as a steelworker. And because of the sequester, his unemployment check was cut 10 percent. But a new job might be in his future.
Sequester cuts get real for unemployed Americans
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Kai Ryssdal
Mar 1, 2013
The sequester will mean cuts to the unemployment checks people depend on to pay bills.
For public good, not for profit.
For unemployed, a shave and a haircut... no charge
Oct 19, 2012
Telling someone to cut their hair and get a job is an old cliche. But a Portland barbershop is doing just that for those who are down on their luck.
Unemployed or underemployed? There's an app for that
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Kai Ryssdal
Sep 14, 2012
In a digital twist on the age-old practice of paying people to do odd jobs for you, new smartphone apps like TaskRabbit and Postmates allow you to hire your own personal assistants -- to say, clean your home, buy your groceries or run errands.
When the unemployed stop looking for jobs
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David Gura
Sep 7, 2012
Discouraged workers give up after months of fruitless job seeking.