Writer DW Gibson traveled across the country in search of the Great Recession’s victims. The result: Not Working, a portrait of America’s 21st-century unemployed. Here are a few of the tales he came home with.
Over the summer and fall of 2011, I drove across the country from southern California to New York City. I made the trip with filmmaker MJ Sieber, playwright Mallery Avidon, and — when she could escape her job — my wife, Tasha Garcia Gibson.
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Since 1983, employees of Lancaster Employment & Training Agency have been helping out-of-work Lancaster County residents find jobs.
Come July 1, the 36 current LETA employees could need help finding jobs for themselves, alongside the unemployed 1,200 they assist each week.
The executive committee of Lancaster County Workforce Investment Board on Tuesday voted to recommend the county commissioners award contracts to two companies for administering employment assistance programs here.
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February 9, 2011
Unemployed job seekers are entitled to some tax breaks, but most people have only a hazy idea of what they are. Let’s say you’re out of work and buy new clothes — and, while you’re at it, get a new haircut — for job interviews. Then suppose you use your home office as a base, […]
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January 30, 2011
Tower Bancorp’s decision to close its American Home Bank will cost 112 workers here their jobs, the state disclosed Thursday. Harrisburg-based Tower said Wednesday that it will shut most of AHB by March 31 and all of it by June 30 after efforts to sell it failed. But a Tower spokeswoman did not respond to […]
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