Unemployed Residents Struggle In Stagnant Job Market
Like 14 million other Americans, the Barrons are searching for a job in a market that stopped adding them last month.
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Like 14 million other Americans, the Barrons are searching for a job in a market that stopped adding them last month.
For the third time in a week, Sam Wistrand sat down in front of a computer at workforce solutions in Irving and started the slow scroll through internet job sites.
A thousand jobs are leaving Dallas. Chicken processor Pilgrim's Pride announced Friday it is consolidating processing plants and eliminating the one in South Dallas.
RuthAnn Davis, of Dallas, says her year-long search for employment is affecting her emotionally. "I'm depressed. I'm trying to keep an upper hand but you just get so discouraged and then everything comes due and your bills are due, your rent's due" she says. "Where's the money to pay them?"
Pamela Daniel may be out of work, but she is not out of hope. "It's been really stressful," said Daniel. "Without my family supporting me, I probably wouldn't be here today."
New U.S. Department of Labor statistics show the unemployment rate for people ages 16-19 is rising for the first month of the summer. That's why hundreds of high school students and recent graduates lined up at the Will Rogers Center in the early afternoon heat. They've learned jobs are hard to come by.
Employment recruiters say business is heating up after a slow recessionary period that forced many employment firms to lay off employees.
In its long list of sometimes unpopular ideas for cutting the budget, Fort Worth ISD is now looking at one of the most controversial: changes to its Terminal Pay program, which planners say could eventually save tens of millions of dollars.
Clutching their numbers like winning lottery tickets, hundreds of Dallas ISD employees openly celebrated their approaching retirement Saturday.
For the unemployed, 2011 offers a glimmer of hope: According to an annual study from the National Association for Business Economics, all four major job industry sectors in the country experienced demand growth for the sixth consecutive quarter as 2010 came to an end.
