Unemployment Crisis
With congress not acting to fund the extension of unemployment benefits 1.3 million job seekers will be cut off Dec 28th and this will impact 4.9 million by the end of 2014. Much of the media coverage and bias political and economic chatter does not reflect the real numbers of people out of work.
Once you are off UE benefits you do not get counted and there are still 351,767 people who are unemployed here in New Jersey alone while the NJ State Unemployment rate dropped from 8.4 to 7.8 with only 16,900 jobs added from last month, and is not solely responsible for the statistical drop as those off benefits are no longer counted.
As a jobs advocate (www.jobsadvocate.com) I know first hand working with these job seekers that the only solution is to create jobs and change attitudes towards the long-term unemployed. We have a great group at Neighbors-helping=Neighbors USA where peers and others help our members with getting back to work. We have 359 success stories in just over two years. We soon will celebrate our There years and counting on Jan 27th 2014 when we had one meeting group in the River Edge Library and then added the second meeting 6 months later, the rest has been nothing short of amazing, 24 weekly groups.
http://www.neighbors-helping-neighbors.com/unemployment-crisis.html
We have a guest speaker program at Montclair State University which resumes Jan 22, 2014 with a LinkedIn Presentation from Joe Ned
http://www.neighbors-helping-neighbors.com/nhn-montclair-state-university.html
and the continued motivation of 1200 member job seekers and 2800 in our LinkedIn group. If you are out of work or fear that possibility at your current job please join our linkedIn group and visit our web site:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/NeighborshelpingNeighbors-USA-3892534
We have a local meetings at Oakland Library that will resume meetings on January 9th at 10:30 pm and meet weekly from there.
Opened March 8, 2012
Oakland Library
Thursdays 10:30am-12:00
2 Municipal Plaza
Oakland, NJ 07436
Our web site was voted top 100 career site for 2013 by Forbes.com readers come see why www.nhnusa.org