#unemployment

Turned down for another job. Tired today to get motivated to redo the resume and engage outplacement and recruiting services but really did not find the motivation. Just cleaned and did laundry. But I am coming up on 2 months so I really need to figure out a way to focus and be positive about this If you know any recruiters that have been positive to work with in the Chicago and southern Wisconsin ares please let me know. Would really appreciate the help. #unemployment #jobhunting #jobhunt

Revealed: the UK towns with the fewest jobs for young people https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/sep/16/revealed-the-uk-towns-with-the-fewest-jobs-for-young-people #Unemployment #Youth #Society

Hey, let's talk about some dangerous numbers. The federal unemployment rate, reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, counts people who do not have jobs, are available for work and actively seeking employment. The #BLS reported a 4.1% #unemployment rate for July 2026. The Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, or #LISEP, measures people without jobs, workers who want full-time work but are employed part time involuntarily, and workers earning less than $26,000 a year before taxes. LISEP reported a functional unemployment rate of 24.9% in July, six times higher than the federal figure. If a quarter of your working age population cannot find labor that allows them shelter, food and necessities, then you are sitting on a powder keg. https://www.lisep.org/ #US #economy #workingpoor #lateStageCapitalism #Cassandra

How could the Dems win in 2028? Probably not with a repeat of the Harris playbook of cozying up to Wall Street and promoting a status quo of genocide abroad and privation for the working-class at home. The number one issue for voters is almost always the economy; specifically, their ability to keep their families housed, fed and healthy, something that was becoming harder and harder, even before the Republicans gutted what little social safety net had existed prior to Trump 2.0. And one way of addressing this, though I’m not holding my breath, would be to campaign for a Universal Basic Income (UBI). The world’s most robust study of (UBI) found that giving people a free, guaranteed monthly income, without any strings attached, increased their financial and mental health, while correlating with increased employment. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242937-universal-basic-income-seems-to-improve-employment-and-well-being/ #workingclass #ubi #finland #unemployment

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"A surprisingly🚨BAD JOB REPORT. The US #economy LOST -23,000 jobs in July (way below expectations of +80k). May and June were🚨revised DOWN by a combined -103,000. Unemployment rate: 4.1% ->This went down for the WRONG reasons.🚨Over 260,000 left the labor force Wage growth: 3.2% -->this is🚨entirely wiped out by #inflation." -H Long #Jobs #Unemployment #Kakistocracy #Incompetence #Deportations #Tariffs #Trump #Impeach #Uprising #USPol

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Local privileged layabout Tyler Blake regularly asks friends if they’re free to hang out during normal working hours, according... Read the full masterpiece The post Friend Who Doesn’t Work Wants To Know If You’re Free Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. appeared first on HARDTIMES.

The #Biden Administration created 256,000 jobs in the final full month of his presidency (Dec). The most jobs created in one month during #DisasterDon's second term is 172,000 in January 2025 (the month Biden left office on the 20th.) 🤦‍♂️ #Jobs #Unemployment

Today's #RGBots is an example of a pretty average day in a job search. https://www.rgbots.com/comic/job-hunting/ #comic #webcomic #cartoon #robots #jobs #unemployment

The #Labor Dept said Thurs that the #unemployment rate declined to 4.2% from 4.3% in May, though the decline mostly occurred because many people out of work gave up looking & were no longer counted as unemployed. The figures suggest companies remain wary of the #economy’s health, with #inflation at a 3-year high & consumer confidence near post-pandemic lows. The #jobs gains initially reported in April & May were also revised lower. #CostOfLiving #affordability #trumpcession #recession #trump

As Pat McFadden (Labour's current Work & Pensions Secretary) is now saying, the emphasis on welfare reform - and the 'need' to reduce the welfare budget - is switching from sticks to carrots (my words not his), with support to get young people into jobs via subsides for employment & training. This is where a Labour party should have started not been forced to shift by political pressure, but other sticks remain, as does the callous attitude to benefits claimants. #workers #unemployment h/t FT

#FollowTheMoney 🧵42/n Firstly, I am conscious of my own #redundancy being very much part of the wider hollowing out, draining out of both public services and professional, creative industries everywhere (see many posts ⬆️). I am really scared about this - it’s strange how this is happening but not really talked about; no #unemployment crisis narrative at all, as of course most people, like me, end up not being “unemployed” but doing smaller, precarious jobs; very few of us on benefiso no stats

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 54/n This article is hard to stomach for all those of us currently looking for work, and not finding anything suitable, or anything at all. But it’s good that at least rising #unemployment is recognised now. My own #redundancy last year and subsequent struggles have made me so alert to all these wider structural changes; I am really scared that this may be just the beginning. Terrible combination of AI and money going only to the rich

#FollowTheMoney 90/n 🧵 UK unemployment rate hits five-year high of 5.2% In a way i am glad that at least rising #unemployment is slowly recognised and talked about in MSM - those of us who have lost jobs know anecdotally just how widespread #Redundancy now is. worrying nonetheless. Not least because #underemployment- many working in PT low grade jobs to make ends meet - is not picked up at all statistically. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l7pedyzjeo https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1l7pedyzjeo

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 91/n Youth #unemployment in particular is rising significantly in the UK. Now at 16.1%, higher than EU average for the first time. Alan Milburn: this poses an “existential” risk for the UK and could put “a generation on the scrapheap”. “This is not a short-term phenomenon, it’s a long-term one,” he told the BBC. “We’re seeing something dramatic changing in the labour markets.”

RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz/-/a-iV98VnHOTuCOulvDJOoOQw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 The #Conservative Party of #Canada published an #AI generated ad about #poverty and #recession, despite the AI industry being both one of the leading drivers of #unemployment and one of the leading drivers of #inflation and increasing costs of living. “The medium is the message,” as McLuhan wrote. The use of a poverty-generating technology to produce the ad reveals the real message: The CPC is pro-mass-layoffs, pro-cropland-displacement, pro-electricity-inflation, pro-drought, and pro-impoverishment. Their pretence of concern about working Canadians' economic conditions is a manipulative and exploitative lie. Their hypocrisy is ripe. The Liberals are conservative (hence #Carney enacting #neoliberalism), and the Conservatives are fascist. #cdnpoli #CPC #technicalRecession #CBC #NDP #GreenParty

PBS NewsHour - The Latest | Weekly U.S. jobless claims fall to 189,000, lowest in more than five decades by Matt Ott, Associated Press AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. In the week ending April 25, U.S. jobless‑benefit applications dropped by 26,000 to 189,000— the fewest new claims since September 1969 and the lowest level in more than five decades—defying analysts’ expectations of about 214,000. The Labor Department said the four‑week moving average fell to 207,500, while total weekly filers slipped to 1.79 million. Despite this positive signal, the labor market remains strained: core inflation surged, driven in part by higher gas prices as the Iran‑U.S. conflict pushes crude to around $104 a barrel; the Federal Reserve kept rates steady amid Middle‑East uncertainty, and employers added fewer than 200,000 jobs last year after a sharp slowdown following pandemic‑era expansions. Economists warn that elevated energy and material costs, together with AI‑driven hiring caution and lingering tariff impacts, could later revive layoffs even as the unemployment rate stays near historic lows. Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/weekly-u-s-jobless-claims-fall-to-189000-lowest-in-more-than-five-decades #FederalReserve #MorganStanley #jobs #layoffs #unemployment

I should start fentslouching in public places and suddenly lunge at strangers. That seems fun #unemployment

Amazon accidentally announces further 16,000 layoffs in AI pivot A misfired internal email was the first time many employees found out about a second round of job cuts in just six months. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-29/amazon-accidentally-announces-layoffs/106280800 #BusinessEconomicsandFinance #ScienceandTechnology #ComputerScience #Work #CompanyNews #InformationTechnologyIndustry #Industry #Unemployment