Labour has said it would offer the long-term unemployed a guarantee of a six-month job if it was in government.
And three to six months of assistance to unemployed home-owners is not a program with long-range chances of success, given the length of time that workers are remaining unemployed, unable to find new jobs after being unemployed for a year or two.
As a result, though, not only are nearly a third of young people unemployed but a high proportion of those working have low-wage, six-month contracts.
All that against a background of 4.1m unemployed, a rate of 10.7%, and flagging economic growth, likely to be no more than 1.5% this year.
My spouse and I know this by personal experience: An out-of-town family who owns a vacant home next door replaced my freshly unemployed spouse a couple years back with a (Spanish-only) lawn service despite the fact that we live next door, we knew their late mother for many years, and they knew my spouse was fresh out of work.
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Of the 12.1 million the government does count as unemployed, a record 40.1% are long term unemployed for more than 6 months.
At the same time, we will have to face a new challenge: reintegrating the long-term unemployed into a job market that has the capacity to absorb them, but who may now have significant skills gaps.
We have voted three times -- and tomorrow we will vote a fourth -- to simply extend the benefits for those that are unemployed for a long term, simply to extend them a few more weeks.
The long-term unemployed are a big part of that 8.5 million jobs that have been lost.
The Work Programme makes payments to organisations which help the long-term unemployed find a job.
His first notoriety came in 1956, when he gathered a few unemployed men to mend a public road.
The unemployed face a job market where employers can cherry-pick the best prospects without having to tempt them with attractive salaries.
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They are less likely to be homeless, living in poverty, unemployed or a victim of crime and they will probably live longer too.
And if a business hires an unemployed veteran with a disability related to their service, I proposed doubling the tax break that we already have in place.
One of every two displaced Colombians is unemployed and a similar number live in makeshift homes made of cloth, cardboard or wood, says the Office of the U.N.
Research suggests that being unemployed doubles a person's chance of a major depressive episode and that unemployment is also highly associated with domestic violence and alcohol abuse, Leahy said.
Terry, currently unemployed and a keen rapper in his spare time, took up the voluntary post of youth mayor for Bridgend after spending time as a member of the youth council.
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Sharga chalks up the increase in strategic defaults (or at least the willingness to consider them) to two major factors: a new type of unemployed homeowner and a lack of trust in lending institutions.
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Recent graduates are unemployed at a rate of 7.8%, a tad higher than journalists, experienced college graduates at a rate of 5.6%, somewhat lower than journalists, and graduate degree holders, 3.8%, the same as journalists.
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The Republicans, in turn, agreed to a series of handouts for humbler folk that they had previously resisted, including an extension of benefits for the unemployed, a cut in payroll taxes and a renewal of Mr Obama's supposedly one-off tax credits for parents and college students.
Mr. Fertelmes's daughter could no longer drive her son to school each day with her family's one car, as she had just started a new job after being unemployed for over a year.
The Naked Chef star had been trying to negotiate a new deal for his Oliver's Army, which would have seen him train a number of unemployed young people in a London restaurant.
More than a fifth of the Spanish workforce is unemployed, and a majority of its young people.
For these reasons some argue that youth unemployment is better and more accurately represented by using a ratio, calculated as the share of unemployed, as a percentage of the whole youth population.
That trying to push up wages in an environment which you have a lot of people unemployed I think is a mistake.
On a bus in Tehran, an unemployed movie buff reading a published screenplay passes himself off as its author, the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
Ms. May, 63 years old and never unemployed before the latest downturn, runs a group for unemployed professionals in the Los Angeles area.
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But the fact remains that nearly one in five construction workers is still unemployed and needs a job.
The poor unemployed may be a new labour pool, but companies may not find them all that useful.
The economy is a key issue for Lopez, who's been unemployed and searching for a job for two years.
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