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Discouraged Workers (US, 2004-09) In the United States, a discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.
AP There's no denying the job market has seen some recovery since the worst of the recession. The official unemployment rate currently stands at 7.3 percent. That's down from 10.0 percent in ...
For women, another explanation for this "glass ceiling" effect in the American work force is the job-family trade off. [74] While both men and women feel that a conflict exists between job and family, women with children, particularly married women, are more likely to either temporarily leave the labor force or cut back on employment by using ...
(These people are often called discouraged workers and are not counted officially as being "unemployed.") The tendency to get by without work (to exit the labor force, living off relatives, friends, personal savings, or non-recorded economic activities) can be aggravated if it is made difficult to obtain unemployment benefits. [16]
“A lot of the people who were going to find a new job found one,” Hershbein said. And “a lot of businesses found the people that they needed, and don’t need any more right now. It’s the ...
Courtesy of Althea AngusAngus at work In order to work as a home-health aide "you have to love people," as Althea Angus puts it. The 55-year old should know. She has spent the past four years as ...
However this number includes children under 18 years of age, elders over 65, and people with disabilities who cannot work. The poverty rate of people between the ages of 18 and 64 was 10.7%, or 21.1 million people. Of these, nearly half, 5.1%, were working at least part-time. [9]
Despite many in the United States still feeling the pinch, there's no denying that the job market is improving. Last week, the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell to a five-year ...