Local Expert Urges Those Losing Unemployment Benefits To Look Beyond

November 10, 2010 11:42 AM

(Photo by John Ostapkovich)

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A wave of extra trouble is about to swamp tens of thousands of the long-term jobless: an end to unemployment benefits.

Extended federal unemployment benefits will expire for nearly 18,000 Philadelphians in December, according to US Department of Labor and Industry estimates. That’s more than 50 percent more than the total whose benefits expired in the first eight months of this year.

Early 2011 doesn’t look so hot either, says Eric Nelson (above), interim CEO of the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board. His advice for job-seekers:

“We really encourage them to have a broad perspective about employment opportunities. Most of the jobs that they’ve worked at in the past probably don’t exist anymore, so we’re going to encourage them to look at a whole new world of employment and look at what skills they have, transferred to other opportunities.”

Or, though the Workforce Investment Board, connect to new skills for the new reality.

Reported by John Ostapkovich, KYW Newsradio 1060.

Local Expert Urges Those Losing Unemployment Benefits To Look Beyond

dean cliver

i can relate to the sixty year old women looking for work.iam sixty seven and have been out of work a year in december.i can not begin to tell you how many apts i have put in.i even applied for the job i did for fourteen years,got and interview and never heard any more.now i hear to former congressmen want to cut social security to cut the national debt,why not just give us a gun so we can end it altogether.some people could care less about the middle class and the poor,that is sad