Sentences with phrase «of joblessness»

A broad measure of joblessness that includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part - time because they can not find full - time employment fell to a fresh six - year low of 11.4 percent from 11.5 percent in October.

• By the time they have been retired for two years, 78 % of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce.

Author Bio: James M. Quane is associate director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard University.

In fact, the research indicated that resumes with a current lengthy period of joblessness experienced little success at landing interviews.

He stressed that underlying problems of joblessness, injustice and poverty has snowballed into ethnic and religious conflicts in parts of the country.

While many of the latter become addicted to alcohol or narcotics, it is usually their idleness and hopelessness that lead to abuse, and thence to the vicious cycle of joblessness / homelessness / Substance abuse.

Just about everyone will experience a period of joblessness in their work - age lifetimes.

King saw that for the vast majority of black Americans, their fundamental oppression was not that they were black, but that they were poor — last hired, first fired, locked out of the American dream, living in a vast twilight zone of joblessness and hopelessness.

We know that black youth in some of the city slums have a real rate of joblessness approaching 50 per cent, leaving them to walk the streets hungry and without a decent means of earning a living.

The value pack of chicken thighs start to look pretty good, especially in the face of joblessness and gas over 4 bucks a gallon.

According to him, «You must improve the business terrain to deal decisively with issues of joblessness and poverty,»

«It does not lessen the heartbreak of parents who watch their children go through the frustration of joblessness year after dispiriting year.

This emergency housing fund is also known as «reserves,» and it needs to be readily accessible in case of joblessness, illness or injury.

With a high unemployment rate that has outpaced even the high rate of joblessness nationwide, many state residents are looking for health insurance separate from their jobs for the first time in their entire lives.

For that reason, Platinum Reasons has learned that having someone to stand in the gap and shoulder some of the weight of joblessness is just the ticket when it comes to layoffs and severance.

Your resume is your ticket out of joblessness and it must emphasize professionalism, which makes resume whitening a hurtful scheme.

The effect of joblessness.

A broader measure of joblessness that includes discouraged workers and those at work part - time for economic reasons fell sharply, from 8.3 percent to 7.9 percent after being at 9.5 percent just a year ago.

The real solution to the problem of joblessness is not simply to find another job — that would only mask the symptoms of the illness.

Decades of Democrat establishment policies have caused a spiraling cycle of joblessness and decay.

After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine feels increasingly anxious in her surroundings - the office's scarred pinkish walls take on a living quality, the drone of keyboards echoes eerily down the long halls.

Schizophrenia afflicts roughly 1 percent of the population — some 2.4 million Americans — destroying personal relationships and setting up conditions for high rates of joblessness and drug addiction.

It became increasingly clear that, along with the unemployed members» anxiety about finding work, they felt a persistent loneliness and alienation because of their joblessness.

Rep. Rangel said that the talent center can serve as a measure of hope to a community living under the stress of joblessness.

State Labor Department officials said more people have entered or re-entered the workforce, but there are not enough jobs for all of them and that has resulted in the rise in the rate of joblessness.

Author Bio: William Julius Wilson is professor of sociology at Harvard University and director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program.

Many struggle with things like employment gaps, however, and wonder how those periods of joblessness should be addressed.

Yet low - income noncustodial fathers, with low wages and high rates of joblessness, often do not fulfill their parenting roles.

Moreover, a broader measure of joblessness, which includes those who are working part time but would prefer full - time jobs and those that have given up searching — the U-6 unemployment rate — also fell in April to 8.6 %, its lowest level since 2007.

Moreover, a broader measure of joblessness, which includes those who are working part time, but would prefer full - time jobs and those that have given up searching — the U-6 unemployment rate — fell to 8.4 percent in May, its lowest level since 2007.