{"id":46640,"date":"2015-05-21T06:53:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=46640"},"modified":"2015-05-21T06:53:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:53:58","slug":"40-percent-of-unemployed-have-quit-looking-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/?p=46640","title":{"rendered":"40 Percent of Unemployed Have Quit Looking for Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/102694868\">CNBC<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don&#8217;t have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows.<\/p>\n<p>A tight jobs market, the skills gap between what employers want and what prospective employees have to offer, and a benefits program that, while curtailed from its recession level, still remains obliging have combined to keep workers on the sidelines, according to a Harris poll of 1,553 working-age Americans conducted for Express Employment Professionals.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side, the number is actually better than 2014, the survey&#8217;s inaugural year, when 47 percent of the jobless said they had given up.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via: CNBC: At a time when 8.5 million Americans still don&#8217;t have jobs, some 40 percent have given up even looking. The revelation, contained in a new survey Wednesday showing how much work needs to be done yet in the U.S. labor market, comes as the labor force participation rate remains mired near 37-year lows. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46641,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46640\/revisions\/46641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptogon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}