A new Heldrich Center research brief notes concerns for long-term unemployed older workers and offers some strategies to assist this population, which is falling through the cracks of the new boom economy.
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job loss
Strategically Virtual: Lessons Learned from the New Jersey Career Network Job Seeker Community
Researchers were able to ascertain a clearer picture of the challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned from local workforce development professionals trying to simultaneously help people in need and personally and professionally stay above water in an extremely new and stressful environment.
From theater director to cheese expert: Displaced workers in some industries switch careers to stay afloat
With close to 1 million people still filing for first-time unemployment benefits every week, displaced workers in industries like travel, hospitality and entertainment are finding that they have to reorient their professional skills — and in some cases, their entire...
Twin crises: The economic impact of COVID-19 and Americans’ outlook for the future
Americans are experiencing dire financial and emotional trauma from the pandemic-driven recession and worry that these negative realities will linger for many years.
A long road back from the devastation of COVID-19
The recession caused by COVID-19 and the various actions taken to help mitigate the spread of the infectious virus has been devastating to the nation’s economy, and many economists are calling it the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The numbers bear...
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