A REPORT TO DONORS, SUPPORTERS AND FRIENDS By Trudy Goldberg, Chair, NJFAC The Continuing Jobs Crisis: For years NJFAC has called attention to the chronic unemployment that blights the lives of millions of individuals and families, even in the best of times. We have been deeply concerned about this problem — even in times of… Read More GOODJOBS Newsletter: Supplement 4, December 2013
Financial Security of Elderly Americans at Risk, EPI 6/13 PEOPLE AGE 55 AND OVER For the work force 55 years and over, the LFPR is quite different from that of earlier ages. The LFPR of this group declined from about 43% in the early 1950’s to a minimum of about 29% in early 1990’s. Since… Read More Employment of Those 55 and Over
On the first Friday of each month the Labor Department releases the previous month’s unemployment numbers, and the issue of unemployment and joblessness gets attention from the news media. The National Jobs for All Coalition is urging groups and unemployed workers to hold news conferences, vigils and pickets at unemployment offices, and to take other… Read More Call for “First Friday” Actions
OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT: 5.4%* White 4.7% African American 9.6% Hispanic 6.9% Asian** 4.4% Persons with a disability** 10.0% Men 20 years and over 5.0% Women 20 years and over 4.9% Teens (16-19 years) 17.1% Black teens 27.5% Officially unemployed 8.5 million from the U.S. BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS *If the… Read More Current Rate: April 2015 Unemployment Data
New York Times, November 20, 2012 …. Nearly six million factory jobs, almost a third of the entire manufacturing industry, have disappeared since 2000. And while many of these jobs were lost to competition with low-wage countries, even more vanished because of computer-driven machinery that can do the work of 10, or in some cases,… Read More Skills Don’t Pay the Bills by Adam Davidson
