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99ers is a colloquial term for unemployed people in the United States, mostly citizens, who have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, including all unemployment extensions. As a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passed by Congress in February 2009, many unemployed people could receive up to 99 weeks of unemployment ...
Percentage of NEETs among 15- to 24-year-olds (ILO data, 2023)A NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", is a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training.
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.
The poetic slang for a cheap coffin originated in the late 19th century, with the earliest use found in The Chicago Tribune. ... Slackers or a young, unemployed person who sleeps all day.
The stigma of unemployment means that as soon as someone loses their job, they're viewed through a different lens, a more skeptical lens. And that can make it harder to get a job.
Long-term unemployment is a component of structural unemployment, which results in long-term unemployment existing in every social group, industry, occupation, and all levels of education. [23] In 2015 the European Commission published recommendations on how to reduce long-term unemployment. [24] These advised governments to:
Short-term youth employment is often unreported but can be very beneficial. A teenager hired to aid in constructing a shed or barn, for example, learns valuable skills and responsibility. [citation needed] Most youth would not be employed for short-term projects if employment had to be reported. Government revenue collectors typically ignore ...
Born right smack on the cusp of millennial and Gen Z years (ahem, 1996), I grew up both enjoying the wonders of a digital-free world—collecting snail shells in my pocket and scraping knees on my ...