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...
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NJDOL Commissioner speaks on policy, politics, and positive change post-pandemic
Career paths, New Jersey Department of Labor’s pandemic response, and how the crisis has the potential to make a positive change, increasing faith in a more competent government
Higher wages and help wanted ads are plentiful, but workers aren’t filling jobs in NJ
Take leisure and hospitality out of the overall job market equation, the reserve said, and “there is relatively little decline in the correlation” between unemployment and job vacancies. Carl Van Horn, director of the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development...
‘Help Wanted’ — four strategies to fix America’s jobs crisis
Last week, the Congressional Budget Office projected record-breaking growth in 2021, but it is premature to celebrate this rosy macroeconomic projection because the rest of their report contained the alarming prediction that the U.S. labor market will not...
One thing we agree on – How the American public views the economic crisis
Survey results showed that the public shares widespread agreement regarding the state of the economy and what the response to joblessness should be.
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.
Pfeiffer featured on local assemblyman’s series on unemployment
The series looks at why the NJDOL failed to keep up with the demand of unemployment claims in the early days of the pandemic, and why it struggled to catch up.
In November, men dropped out of the workforce at higher rates than women
About 347,000 men left the workforce in November, compared to about 10,000 women. That’s in stark contrast to September, when 865,000 women left the labor force — four times the number of men that month. The drop-off is somewhat striking because aside from March and...
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...