Rutgers Workforce Expert Offers Guidance to Unemployed Workers Due to COVID-19 Recession

April 17, 2020

The COVID-19 global pandemic has left a record-number 22 million people – including over 700,000 within New Jersey – without jobs, wondering what the new normal will be when it comes to the economy and job-seeking in the future.

Carl Van Horn, Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and the founding director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers’ Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, and a senior adviser to Gov. Phil Murphy, talks about the current labor market and offers advice to those recently unemployed or facing layoffs.

Rutgers Today, April 16, 2020

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