{"id":34227,"date":"2012-08-25T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T20:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/unemployment_woes_hit_hard_for_displaced_workers_labor_dept-_study_shows\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T20:02:13","slug":"unemployment_woes_hit_hard_for_displaced_workers_labor_dept-_study_shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34227","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment woes hit hard for displaced workers, Labor Dept. study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many workers are nervous about their livelihoods despite the economic recovery \u201d\u201d and for good reason, it turns out.<\/p>\n<p>Among those workers who lost a good job because of the struggling economy over the past three years, roughly one in four found a job that pays as well, according to data released Friday by the Labor Department.<\/p>\n<p>The others remained unemployed, stopped looking for work or accepted jobs at lower wages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis data is telling a story of unemployment inflicting long-term damage for a lot of people,\u201d\u009d said Michael Mandel, an economist at the Progressive Policy Institute, a centrist think tank. \u201cThis won\u2019t turn around until wages overall start rising \u201d\u201d and so far, we haven\u2019t seen any strong signs of that.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/unemployment-woes-hit-hard-for-displaced-workers-labor-dept-study-shows\/2012\/08\/24\/72c7e608-ee00-11e1-b0eb-dac6b50187ad_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many workers are nervous about their livelihoods despite the economic recovery \u201d\u201d and for good reason, it turns out. Among those workers who lost a good job because of the struggling economy over the past three years, roughly one in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34227\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,582,149,597,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}