unemployment
RE-TELLING 2012: “TEXTS FROM LINE AT ‘HIRING SPREE’”
GreaterLongBeach.com is republishing some of our best journalism of 2012, which we believe once again told this area's most-important stories in the most-compelling, insightful and comprehensible ways. Here, again, are texts from a man who spent a day in April waiting with thousands of others to enter a Job Fair in Downey.
HUNDREDS LAID OFF AS DOWNEY BUSINESS RELOCATES OUT-OF-STATE
DOWNEY – Hundreds of employees at the local branch of a direct mail company joined the ranks of the unemployed this week. About 263 employees at IWCO Direct’s office in the 7300 block of Flores Avenue were let go as part of a “reset plan,” according to a statement on IWCO’s website. According to a [...]
LB CITY GIRL: MY DOG-OF-A-YEAR OF LIVING TRANSFORMATIVELY
A year ago, I saved a nine-year-old girl from drowning. She was blue when she was pulled from the pool, and it seems miraculous she was revived. But the next day, for whatever reason---it made sense at the time---I quit the job I loved.
LISTEN TO LARRY MANTLE’S SEGMENT ON NEW RULES FOR HIRING PEOPLE WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS
Airtalk, the KPCC-FM (89.3) radio show hosted by Larry Mantle, today considered the new rules approved by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 25 that could make the search for employment easier for convicted criminals and others who have gotten into legal trouble. To listen to the program via the KPCC-FM archives or via podcast [CLICK [...]
TEXTS FROM THE LINE AT THE JOB FAIR … UM, MAKE THAT “HIRING SPREE”
"People in line are very nice, quietly conversational, realistic, resilient. Sharing stories of their fruitless job searches, not self-pityingly, but recognizing that the sum of their stories equals a very messed-up state of affairs."
STATE’S JOBLESS FUND AS BROKE AS THOSE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE HELPING
California’s disastrous unemployment rate drove the State Unemployment Fund into insolvency two years ago. It pays benefits today only because of federal loans and will have a $13.4-billion deficit by the end of this year. Failure to repay will cost California employers more than $6 billion in additional federal taxes in 2012.
VECTOR CONTROL: SIX-INCH SUBS, LONG TACO LINES AND CHEWY CONDOM SOUP
How the condom actually ended up in the French onion soup isn’t clear, although speculation is that the soup was troubled and desperately seeking love. Claim Jumper is expected to leave the agreed-to dollar amount on the plaintiff's bedside table, along with a faint promise to “call you soon.”
