Long-term unemployment: Highlights Video

Highlights from an Economic Policy Institute forum that took place May 26th, 2010. Preeminent labor economists met to discuss the causes, consequences and solutions for long-term unemployment.

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• Economic Policy Institute
• EPI
• Unemployment Insurance
• Raj Chetty
• Heidi Shierholz
• Till von Wachter
• Lawrence Mishel
• Larry Mishel

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[dddmartin1]

"I CAN'T SAY THAT I LOST MY JOB, I KNOW WHERE IT IS

THERE'S AN ASS-HOLE IN CHINA WHO THINKS THAT IT'S HIS"

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[Yoruba56]

It worse than what is projected on the video. Employers are in fact REJECTING unemployed people's applications. Their reason: "unemployed people are not good workers and lack skills, that is why they are unemployed" This is frighting, millions of unemployed will never (in this scenario) have a decent again. How as Americans did we arrive at this situation and worse, why did we elect a bunch of right wing nuts to congress and state houses?

[Taskforce4US]

The Government has already abandoned the longest of the unemployed, all of those who have already collected the full 99 weeks have now been abandoned by these politicians we elected to office. They have spent TRILLIONS on wars and wall street but they have now turned their backs on their own citizens. President Obama needs to get his head in the game and sign an immediate emergency executive order for a TIER 5 , and do it now ! This is a total disgrace.

Washington should be ashamed.

[7111CA]

So many people are arguing that the unemployment benefit checks are an incentive for the jobless to just sit home on their butts and stop looking for jobs. Well that just is not the case. Even after their benefits come to an end and they stop receiving those checks, millions of Americans are still applying for work and not getting called for jobs or even interviews. The truth is there are not enough jobs to go around. The long term unemployed need a Tier 5 to Survive.

[cgbingo]

Yes we need a job! We look everyday 6 days a week. We are even being laughed at for trying to apply at some companies as they point to stacks of aplications. We want to work. We want to survive! Stop sending our tax money to other countries while our own are losing everything and are on the verge of starvation. People working are able to pay taxes which helps our country. Untill then we need extensions to barely survive!

[choosingawaterfilter]

Thanks for bringing this to the attention of more people.

We need people to understand that not getting a job is not a choice, there just are NOT ENOUGH jobs. Period.