re: Who Are The Long-Term Unemployed?

With unemployment rates hovering where they are, could this group of long term unemployed persons be a legitimate voting block in close elections?

The rate of long term unemployed among those out of work is pretty disturbing in most states according to the article- but especially in Florida, New York, and North Carolina.

There's no doubt the job market sucks. I know a very well rounded guy with a solid resume that had to work part time for 10 months after grad school before finding a legitimate full time position.

This article was posted on CNBC today about the problems facing college graduates looking for work. I'd have figured it would be "lack of experience", but I was wrong.
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Nearly everyone agrees that recent college graduates are having an inordinately tough time finding work almost five years after the end of the Great Recession. Young people aged 18 to 34 have struggled with double-digit unemployment and account for half of the 10.9 million unemployed Americans, according to government figures. Now a new study shows there is widespread disagreement between business leaders and young adults and their families over the root causes of this problem, beyond the obvious problem of a sluggish recovery.

Nearly three-quarters of hiring managers complain that millennials — even those with college degrees — aren't prepared for the job market and lack an adequate "work ethic," according to a survey from Bentley University, a private business school in Waltham, Mass.

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Unemployment is especially bad among young people.....in the 18-34 demographic that I imagine most TD posters fall into.

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While roughly two thirds of business leaders and recruiters say that "hard" technical skills and "soft" skills are equally important, a majority say they'd prefer to hire a recent graduate with industry-specific skills than a liberal arts graduate who needs to be trained first.

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I figured as much....people focused on information systems or finance have a better shot than the person focusing their studies on 19th century lesbian fokelore.