What To Do When You Are Unemployed
March 25th, 2010. Published under Unemployment. No Comments.
Cato senior fellow Jagadeesh Gokhale discusses what we can do with the unemployed as we move out of the recession. About This Video Project During the week of March 2010, CSW staff partnered with the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) to engage attendees at the organization’s Annual Forum (www.nawb.org We (Melodee Hagensen and Kristin Wolff, CSW) conducted informal video interviews with a random sample of about 25 of the 1800 conference participants, comprising executive staff and members of workforce boards. We asked them about: key priorities and challenges, issues they were interested in learning about, and thoughts on what they’d heard or experienced at the conference. Jobs (job shortages, job creation, entrepreneurship, and Federal Jobs legislation) was the central issue on their minds. The “green energy economy” and training partnerships also emerged as important themes. We then conducted similarly informal video interviews with 10 policy professionals, thought leaders, and experts working on jobs, green energy, and training issues in Washington DC – these individuals represent a wide variety of policy, political, and economic perspectives. This video is is one of a collection that resulted from this project. The intent of NAWB and CSW is to share the individual clips with our partners, stakeholders, and communities as we advance a work, learning, and sustainable prosperity agenda. We will also be developing subject specific montages that we will add to …
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What To Do When You Are Unemployed