(Editor’s Note: This story is part of a partnership between Chasing the Dream and Next Avenue.) By Richard Eisenberg An anthropology professor might not be the first person you’d think of to research the ways job hunters look for work…
A report in 2010 found that Phoenix led the nation in cities with “disconnected youth;” individuals ages 16 to 24 who were not in school and not working.
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By Richard Eisenberg, Money & Work Editor, Next Avenue Have you seen Elizabeth White's TEDx talk yet? It’s based on White’s book, Fifty-five Unemployed and Faking Normal, which sprang out of a Next Avenue essay she wrote in 2016. Her TEDx talk has…
At 4.3 percent, the unemployment rate is at its lowest level since 2001. But left out of this figure are people who are working part time or fewer hours than they desire -- - the underemployed. NewsHour Weekend’s Christopher Booker…
From our partners at Prairie Public News, a report on falling poverty rates on Native American reservations. http://cpa.ds.npr.org/ndpr/audio/2016/06/chasing-davis.mp3 The director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission says he believes the poverty rate among Native Americans in North Dakota is dropping.…
Youngstown, Ohio is an upper-midwest city that has come to symbolize the nation’s distress of deindustrialization with high unemployment and crime rates. But after decades of decline, the city has plans to rebuild, remove blight and attract employers. On issues…
Mayor Ras Baraka said Newark needs to create 6,000 jobs, just to bring its unemployment rate in line with the rest of the state.