Long Island Unemployed Frustrated With Being Unemployed

There are many things in life that are frustrating. But, when it comes to being unemployed, for an extended period of time, with a family relying on you, there are few things more disheartening and frustrating. Talking with people around Long Island who are unemployed, one thing continues to be the sentiment; they want a job.

Even more frustrating than not finding a job is having to have a job before you are hired. Doesn't make sense, but that is what many unemployed Long Island workers are experiencing. It’s a frustrating catch for those out of work in an era of high unemployment: looking for a job, only to find that some employers don’t want anyone who doesn’t already have one.

But after four years of above-average joblessness in the U.S., efforts to bar such practices by employers have met with mixed results. While New Jersey, Oregon and Washington, D.C., have passed laws making it illegal to discriminate against the unemployed, New York City’s billionaire-businessman mayor vetoed on Friday what would have been the most aggressive such measure in the country. Similar proposals have stalled in more than a dozen other states and Congress.

Ed Lynch Recent Columns | E-Mail Edward Lynch is a writer for the Long Island Yellow Pages Jobs & Careers section. If you have a press release that you'd like to share please send it to edwardl@longislandyellowpages.com Also Read: Employers Hiring at a Cautious Pace Website Jobs Express Has Helped Thousands of Long Islanders Find Work Declares Hannon Legislator Working to Help College Students Find Work on Long Island Will Tourism Jobs Be Available This Year on Long Island?

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