Insights are from individuals enrolled in the Heldrich Center’s innovative New Start Career Network (NSCN), a privately funded program offering free online information and career coaching from hundreds of volunteer coaches to more than 6,000 job seekers.
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long-term unemployed
Strategically Virtual: Long-term Unemployed Older Workers Persist in a Boom Economy
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.
The Heldrich Center: A National Center of Workforce Development, Policy, and Scholarship
The Heldrich Center is one of the nation’s foremost research and policy organizations dedicated to strengthening the American workplace during an era of rapid global economic change.
Chronic jobless find work in a tight market
The drop in long-term unemployment, if it continues, would be a welcome development for the recovery from the coronavirus recession. Workers who experience long bouts of unemployment often have a tougher time getting hired because their skills may erode and they face...
Federal Unemployment Aid Is Now a Political Lightning Rod
Of the more than 4 million people whose jobless benefits are going to be cut off in the next few weeks, Bre Starr will be among the first. That is because Starr — a 34-year-old pizza delivery driver who has been out of work for more than a year — lives in Iowa, where...
As COVID-19 persists, more Americans are unemployed beyond 6 months. Does that carry a stigma even in a pandemic?
As the health crisis drags on, a growing share of the workers it has idled have been jobless six months or longer, placing them among the ranks of the long-term unemployed. Besides the financial fallout for affected households, there’s a broader toll for the economy,...
Latest jobs report shows long-term unemployment still on the rise, worrying economists
“The longer you’re out of work, the harder it is to get re-employed,” said Maria Heidkamp, director of the New Start Career Network at Rutgers University. “I think we're on the cusp of catastrophic long-term unemployment. The fact that so many of the layoffs we...
U.S. Labor Secretary Perez, job seekers praise the Heldrich Center’s New Start Career Network
On Tuesday, February 16, 2016, U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez visited the New Start Career Network (NSCN), an initiative of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, to conduct a roundtable with several of the network’s older, long-term...
Learning How to Job-Hunt
Most workforce programs provide a short burst of cash, to tide people over until they can get back to work, or help young people earn a degree so they can land a higher-paying job. They’re designed to help the short-term unemployed, notes Carl Van Horn, the...
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