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A semester in Rwanda
For Claire Morrow, Africa was love at first sight. “There is something about this continent and especially Rwanda that is captivating to me,’’ says Morrow, who is in her third year at Northeastern University, majoring in international affairs and human services.
Give the unemployed a second chance
With three unemployed workers for every job opening, employers can be selective. In startling research, Rand Ghayad, a labor economist at Northeastern University, found that prospective employers consistently threw out resumes of applicants with a recent stint of unemployment in favor of applicants with consistent work histories — even applicants with less education or no […]
No, Rand Paul, There’s No Reason to Cut Unemployment Benefits
Rand Paul says he cares about the unemployed. He says it’s “our moral obligation as a society to take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.” That “no one asserts that the problem [of long-term unemployment] is people not wanting to work.” Rather “the problem is not in the minds of the unemployed, but […]
I Can’t Stop Looking at These Terrifying Long-Term Unemployment Charts
There’s a new cliff in town, and it’s much scarier than the fiscal cliff. It doesn’t have anything to do with expiring tax cuts or sequesters. It has to do with people who have been out of work for six months or longer. It’s the worst cliff of them all: the Unemployment Cliff. Our unemployment […]