“America Wants to Work” in the Huffington Post
Arthur Delaney at HuffPo on our “America Wants to Work” project (which we’re doing jointly with the AFL-CIO and state and local labor organizations):
“We just want to help folks,” Chelsey Evans, state director of Working America in New Mexico, told HuffPost. “We’ve had several meetings and we’re coming together to provide services and support to anyone in the community who is unemployed. We’re finding that a lot of people really struggle to navigate through this extremely complex system, whether it’s unemployment, rental assistance, utility assistance, job counseling.”
(snip)Susan See, laid off early in 2009 from her job doing advertising and administrative work for a local newspaper in Albuquerque, said the New Mexico Wants to Work monthly meetings have been a big help. She’s doing some freelance photography while her search for full-time work grinds on, seemingly endlessly.
“It helps a lot just to have a support network, just to know that I’m not alone,” said See, 41. “It starts to feel after a while, ‘What am I doing wrong? Is it my age, is it because I’ve been out of work so long?’ And then you start hearing that from other people, that they’re having the same issues.”
Tags: unemployment
My Friends just told me – When they set something up in Eastern PA I’m all in. I get why they chose Pittsburgh but the fact is that Western PA has had a boost ever since Governor Corbett reopened the gas mines in a big way–leading to the hiring of about 12,000 miners in Western PA. But Eastern PA is still hurting badly for jobs.
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