A newspoint like this (while necessary) just makes the "job-seeker" look worse. Especially in the eyes of the "employed". "What, there are millions of job openings out there ...and you STILL can't find a job??" What the "number crunching" leaves out are the biases of the real "people" who fill those openings. It's less risky to hire someone already employed (that should count only as a job transfer). It's less desirable to hire a "benefit ready" worker. And there's little incentive to job train in order to hire a wider segment of the unemployed population. Until the stigma and hiring mentality behind unemployment changes, no number crunching in the world will give an accurate picture of the current state of joblessness.
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Pacific Sun of CA 12:53PM October 05, 2011