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...steps to address long-term unemployment in this recession. Last year Congress added 33 extra weeks of unemployment benefits. As part of the stimulus bill this year, Congress added an additional potential 20 weeks for the worst hit states, raising to 79 weeks the maximum time a laid-off worker can draw unemployment assistance while looking for a job. To combat "hysteresis," or the atrophying of job skills in the labor force, the Labor Department issued an opinion earlier this year that workers can still draw unemployment insurance even if they work a volunteer job during their search...
...corruption and injustice. "Give me the power, so that I can return the power to you," he declares at his rallies - a catchphrase that has become another slogan. Yet even his supporters are vague about how, exactly, he plans to fulfill those promises. Saied Hussain Fakhri, 20, a campaign worker at the Kabul office, as well as a candidate in the provincial assembly elections being held the same day, says he chose to work for Abdullah because he felt that the candidate "really supports youth on all angles." Yet when asked how Abdullah planned to address issues of youth unemployment...
...into a narrative. A few types of cases make up the bulk of Legal Aid’s work even as, according to the attorneys in the office, the mix has changed with the downturn. Lost jobs tends to mean more domestic violence-related divorces and more claims from workers who are wrongfully denied unemployment benefits, as well as a greater need for papers requesting a court modify child support payments that a laid-off worker can no longer afford...
...Rather than pulling a Polman and simply refusing to invest my “intellectual” resources in the NGO, I think I’ve found a possible solution to my current dilemma. For my next project, I’m not teaming up with another Western worker. Instead, I’m helping design curricula for a local high school with a senior who attends...
While today's summer office jobs bear scant resemblance to the long-term apprenticeships of the Middle Ages, both share the same purpose: jump-starting an ambitious new worker's career. In the trade guilds of 11th century England, a worker would actually pay to learn alongside a "master" who would teach him a skill like printmaking. Apprenticeships could last several years and would start as early as age 16. In many cases, the apprentice was dependent upon the master for food, clothing and a place to live, though this idea eventually disappeared. As the Industrial Revolution of the 18th...