Jun '09 11
Downer of the Day: Older Workers Still Out of Jobs
Sorry to be a downer guys, but this AARP Bulletin piece was too important not to highlight; while folks may think the economy may be on the up and up, the unemployment rate is still hitting older workers, and hard:
"The unemployment rate for workers age 55 or older hit an all-time high of 6.7 percent in May, a level 116 percent higher than at the start of the economic downturn in December 2007, according to an AARP analysis of the latest government employment data. The jobless rate for younger workers also grew precipitously over the same period--63 percent among those ages 16 to 24, and 110 percent for workers 25 to 54.
Among all workers, the unemployment rate climbed to 9.4 percent in May, more than double the 4.5 percent reported in December 2007. An estimated 15 million people are without work."
The article also highlights differences between younger and older workers' experience with unemployment (and employment) during the recession; it's definitely work checking out.
Comments
Susan Goodenough says:
We owned a motel in Tn we lost it to forclosure.Moved back to Northern Mi. got a job just to be emotionally abused by a co-worker.She was verbally abusive from the first day of my enployment till the day she told me to go punch out and good ridance to me.I'm 58 shes in her 30's.I was hired as a cook
an she diecided that I needed to go down stairs and mop up water on the floor.I told her I wasn't going to and she stuck her finger in my face and started screaming at me that I would do what she said or else.I went around her to call my immedate supervisor and she told me to get off the phone and punch out.So, I did. I had no way home and had to walk about 1/2 mile to find a phone at somsones house.Cause she wouldn't let me use the phone.I worked for a country club an wrote them a letter explaining what happened and what had happened from the first day of my employment.I was one of the 3 oldest workers employed.Now,I cannot find work anywhere around here.Nor a lawyer that will listen to me.
08/29/09 7:39 AM