Helping Veterans In Central PA Find A Job
The Lancaster Vets Center Holds Job Fair
Nava Ghalili
Multi-media Journalist
5:29 p.m. EDT, September 20, 2011
EAST LAMPETER TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY— Many veterans deal with a lot more than Post-traumatic Stress Disorder when they return home, so many are without jobs.
"I did not have a job waiting for me, actually I was on unemployment for a while," said Army and National Guard veteran, Michael Perez.
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Resource officers from a number of vet supporting agencies brought their employment tips to a job fair in Lancaster County Tuesday.
The job fair at Lancaster Vets Center in East Lampeter Township welcomed veterans for the first time since their doors opened this year.
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Showing posts with label Florida unemployed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florida unemployed. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Monday, September 6, 2010
Labor Day would have been better if they spent the money making jobs
You really have to wonder what people are thinking when they have all this money but they are not spending it to make jobs for us,,,,,,,
Maybe, just maybe if they spent the money from the stimulus, we could have more jobs?
Unions, Democratic Party politicians rally for more jobs in Orlando
Updated: 3:26 p.m.
Sunshine, pulled pork, Democratic politics and festive live music could only go so far Monday to lift spirits at a Labor Day rally during this year's stagnant economy. Read more...
Maybe, just maybe if they spent the money from the stimulus, we could have more jobs?
September 5, 2010 Article
Florida slow to spend federal stimulus cash
By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau
...40 percent of their share of federal stimulus money, a slow flow of funds that has...share. In all, about $5.7 billion of stimulus grants awarded to Florida has yet to...about slow spending is that much of the stimulus money is still coming, a time-release...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Is state denying benefits to jobless who qualify
Is state denying benefits to jobless who qualify?
By Jim Stratton ORLANDO SENTINEL
11:53 p.m. EST, March 25, 2010
At first, Bonnie Lewis thought her boss was joking.
He had told her that the Longwood call center where she worked was closing. But he was offering Lewis a sales job, one that meant driving around Central Florida.
"I have cataracts so bad I can't see," thought Lewis, 59. "I have no depth perception. I don't have a car."
So she declined the offer and applied for unemployment. After one check, the money stopped because her employer told the state that she had quit, making her ineligible for benefits.
"She didn't quit," says Sally McArthur, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Orlando who got Lewis' benefits restored. "They eliminated her job and offered her something she couldn't possibly do. … They were looking for reasons to turn her down."
The state said it cannot readily determine whether the rate of initial denials is rising, but several lawyers who handle such cases say they have seen similar instances in which the state or employers appear to be stepping up efforts to disqualify out-of-work Floridians.
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Is state denying benefits to jobless who qualify
By Jim Stratton ORLANDO SENTINEL
11:53 p.m. EST, March 25, 2010
At first, Bonnie Lewis thought her boss was joking.
He had told her that the Longwood call center where she worked was closing. But he was offering Lewis a sales job, one that meant driving around Central Florida.
"I have cataracts so bad I can't see," thought Lewis, 59. "I have no depth perception. I don't have a car."
So she declined the offer and applied for unemployment. After one check, the money stopped because her employer told the state that she had quit, making her ineligible for benefits.
"She didn't quit," says Sally McArthur, an attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Orlando who got Lewis' benefits restored. "They eliminated her job and offered her something she couldn't possibly do. … They were looking for reasons to turn her down."
The state said it cannot readily determine whether the rate of initial denials is rising, but several lawyers who handle such cases say they have seen similar instances in which the state or employers appear to be stepping up efforts to disqualify out-of-work Floridians.
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Is state denying benefits to jobless who qualify
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Metro Orlando unemployment jumps to 11.8%
Five years ago we moved to Florida because I was supposed to be able to just work part time and do my work with veterans online the rest of the time. We bought a house in a nice area and after doing some temp work, I found what I thought was the perfect job for me working for a church.
The first few years here, it was easy finding work but that ended in 2007 when I lost my job due to the economy and the decision of the church to close down the education department opting instead for volunteers to run it. I haven't been able to find a paying job since then. Not even temp work.
I did accounting and held positions in just about every aspect of the business world from offices and retail but two years working for a church and then becoming a chaplain, didn't help my resume out much. It's almost as if I don't fit in anywhere anymore. I can picture the expressions of the HR heads reading my resume, seeing Chaplain and Christian Education then quickly putting it in the reject pile. It doesn't seem to matter that I'm just about desperate enough to take a job sweeping floors right now.
It gets even harder to find hope of finding a job when the malls were not even hiring for Christmas, driving past empty stores and closed down restaurants, sucks the air right out of any hope. If it's hard on me, then stop and think how hard it is for the men and women in the National Guards.
Think about this. Their rate of unemployment is over 20%. Who wants to hire them when they think about the fact they can get deployed again? Then there is the attitude that they will be too messed up in the head to do a good job. (Yes, even in this day and age the misinformation about PTSD is alive and kicking) They never seem to think that a National Guardsman or woman can do a great job just because of the type of individual they are.
Considering they put others first, put mission ahead of their personal life and are willing to take a bullet for a buddy, you really can't ask for a better employee, but aside from that, there is also the fact they follow orders well, train well, adapt well and have a habit of not complaining very much at all. Think of a better person to hire?
If I don't fit in then think about how hard of a time they have fitting back in. They still have bills to pay and families to support. What happens is they also come back to jobs long gone and competition for a few jobs from hundreds of people while they also get to worry about having to be redeployed back to Afghanistan or Iraq or waiting for the next natural disaster at the same time they have to worry about finding a job. All in all as bad as we may think we have it here looking for a job in Florida, they have it much worse and we, well we never seem to find the time to think of them at all.
The first few years here, it was easy finding work but that ended in 2007 when I lost my job due to the economy and the decision of the church to close down the education department opting instead for volunteers to run it. I haven't been able to find a paying job since then. Not even temp work.
I did accounting and held positions in just about every aspect of the business world from offices and retail but two years working for a church and then becoming a chaplain, didn't help my resume out much. It's almost as if I don't fit in anywhere anymore. I can picture the expressions of the HR heads reading my resume, seeing Chaplain and Christian Education then quickly putting it in the reject pile. It doesn't seem to matter that I'm just about desperate enough to take a job sweeping floors right now.
It gets even harder to find hope of finding a job when the malls were not even hiring for Christmas, driving past empty stores and closed down restaurants, sucks the air right out of any hope. If it's hard on me, then stop and think how hard it is for the men and women in the National Guards.
Think about this. Their rate of unemployment is over 20%. Who wants to hire them when they think about the fact they can get deployed again? Then there is the attitude that they will be too messed up in the head to do a good job. (Yes, even in this day and age the misinformation about PTSD is alive and kicking) They never seem to think that a National Guardsman or woman can do a great job just because of the type of individual they are.
Considering they put others first, put mission ahead of their personal life and are willing to take a bullet for a buddy, you really can't ask for a better employee, but aside from that, there is also the fact they follow orders well, train well, adapt well and have a habit of not complaining very much at all. Think of a better person to hire?
If I don't fit in then think about how hard of a time they have fitting back in. They still have bills to pay and families to support. What happens is they also come back to jobs long gone and competition for a few jobs from hundreds of people while they also get to worry about having to be redeployed back to Afghanistan or Iraq or waiting for the next natural disaster at the same time they have to worry about finding a job. All in all as bad as we may think we have it here looking for a job in Florida, they have it much worse and we, well we never seem to find the time to think of them at all.
Florida sees worst job losses in U.S.
Metro Orlando unemployment jumps to 11.8%
By Jim Stratton
Orlando Sentinel
December 18, 2009
There's little holiday cheer in the latest unemployment figures, which show Florida lost more jobs in November than any state in the nation.
Employers shed 16,700 positions last month, pushing unemployment to 11.5 percent. Michigan lost the second-highest number of jobs, with 14,000 positions eliminated from October to November.
Florida's unemployment rate is up two-tenths of a point from October's revised rate of 11.3 percent and is at its highest point since May 1975.
Metropolitan Orlando's unemployment rate climbed even higher, to 11.8 percent, up three-tenths of a point from October's revised rate. At the county level, Osceola came in at 13.3 percent, Polk at 12.9 percent, Lake at 12.7 percent, Volusia at 12.3 percent, Brevard at 11.9 percent, Orange at 11.7 percent and Seminole at 10.9 percent.
Flagler County had the state's highest jobless rate: 16.8 percent. Tiny Liberty County in the Panhandle had the lowest: 6.1 percent.
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Florida sees worst job losses in US
Sunday, August 23, 2009
3 kids, no job — relying on God
3 kids, no job — relying on God
By Jim Stratton
Sentinel Staff Writer
August 23, 2009
FRUITLAND PARK - The faith of Charlie Thompson fills a room.
He has been jobless for seven months, can't make his mortgage payment and may lose his car. He and his wife are raising three kids — all with Down syndrome — and have already lost three others to neurological disorders.
Yet, as I sit on his couch, his daughter playing next to me, he says that, ultimately, he feels lucky, that God is protecting his family.
"Maybe that's just looking for something positive," Thompson, 53, says quietly. "But I really believe it."
A moment later, his wife, Barbara, breaks the silence.
"From our experience," she laughs, "we've learned you don't pray for patience."
It's tempting to say the recession has taught Charlie and Barbara Thompson about what really matters, but they've had a pretty good sense of that for a long time now. Married 31 years, the couple have endured enough pain for two lifetimes, yet managed to keep bitterness at bay.
They've filled their lives with children — four adopted, three biological — and faith, leaning on both when times were bad. They take little for granted.
"We had two children who never rolled over on their own," says Barbara, a fourth-generation Floridian. "So seeing these three be naughty is a treat."
"These three" are Luke, 18, Ashley, 14, and Billy, 13. Their oldest child, 30-year-old Charles Byron, is married, living in Lady Lake.
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-jobless-search-082309,0,5417699.story
By Jim Stratton
Sentinel Staff Writer
August 23, 2009
FRUITLAND PARK - The faith of Charlie Thompson fills a room.
He has been jobless for seven months, can't make his mortgage payment and may lose his car. He and his wife are raising three kids — all with Down syndrome — and have already lost three others to neurological disorders.
Yet, as I sit on his couch, his daughter playing next to me, he says that, ultimately, he feels lucky, that God is protecting his family.
"Maybe that's just looking for something positive," Thompson, 53, says quietly. "But I really believe it."
A moment later, his wife, Barbara, breaks the silence.
"From our experience," she laughs, "we've learned you don't pray for patience."
It's tempting to say the recession has taught Charlie and Barbara Thompson about what really matters, but they've had a pretty good sense of that for a long time now. Married 31 years, the couple have endured enough pain for two lifetimes, yet managed to keep bitterness at bay.
They've filled their lives with children — four adopted, three biological — and faith, leaning on both when times were bad. They take little for granted.
"We had two children who never rolled over on their own," says Barbara, a fourth-generation Floridian. "So seeing these three be naughty is a treat."
"These three" are Luke, 18, Ashley, 14, and Billy, 13. Their oldest child, 30-year-old Charles Byron, is married, living in Lady Lake.
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-jobless-search-082309,0,5417699.story
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