Sentences with phrase «average unemployed person»

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-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

Back when I was still unemployed and job hunting the average commute I was looking at was close to 45 minutes to an hour one way (which is about double the average commute in my area, most people try to move closer to their jobs).

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

But 70 percent of blind people in this country are unemployed, even though their education performance has exceeded the national average.»»

What's more important is that these people spend, on average, only about 30 minutes per day job - hunting (you'll need to click the «unemployed» button to see this; it's a vanishingly small slice for people with jobs).

With job growth averaging 45,000 per month in 2015, it is sad to hear people are still unemployed and employers stating they can't find good candidates.

A 2013 study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research found that unemployed people who volunteered 20 hours or more over a 12 - month period were, on average, 6.8 % more likely to be employed at the end of that year, compared to individuals who did not volunteer.

But middle aged Americans and baby boomers, although on the whole better off and less likely to be unemployed than the average person, have still seen numbers from their ranks faced with layoffs and job searches.