A recent story in The Charlotte Observer reported on the 100,000 North Carolinians set to lose federal and state unemployment insurance at the end of the month. The report contained commentary fro John Quinterno of South by North Strategies, Ltd.
A bill recently unveiled in the state legislature by a Republican-controlled committee calls for reducing the maximum weeks of benefits to no more than 20 – and as few as 12 weeks when the unemployment rate is low. The bill also calls for reducing the maximum weekly benefits from $506 to $350.
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“In the U.S. and in North Carolina, we have traditionally assumed that we don’t have long durations of unemployment, that unemployment is a very short phenomenon,” Quinterno said. “One of the things we have seen in the ‘great recession’ is that long-term joblessness has become an entrenched part of our labor market. We are dealing with large numbers of people who have been out of work for very long periods of time.”
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And, he added, the longer people are out of work, the harder it is for them to find a job.
Over the winter, South by North Strategies, Ltd. conducted research into changes in state support in public higher education from 1990 onward for Demos, a national public policy organization based in New York City.
The forthcoming report, entitled The Great Cost Shift in Higher Education, will be the subject of a forum to be held at North Carolina Central University in Durham at 7:30 p.m. on April 4, 2012. The event, which will feature South by North Strategies’ research, is being sponsored by Demos, the NC Justice Center, the Campaign for Young America, and NC Central University.
Click here to register for the event, which will take place in the Alfonso Elder Student Union on the campus of NC Central University (campus map).
Over the winter, South by North Strategies, Ltd. conducted research into changes in state support in public higher education from 1990 onward for Demos, a national public policy organization based in New York City.
The forthcoming report, entitled The Great Cost Shift in Higher Education, will be the subject of a forum to be held at North Carolina Central University in Durham at 7:30 p.m. on April 4, 2012. The event, which will feature South by North Strategies’ research, is being sponsored by Demos, the NC Justice Center, the Campaign for Young America, and NC Central University.
Click here to register for the event, which will take place in the Alfonso Elder Student Union on the campus of NC Central University (campus map).
This evening, WNCU Radio, the public radio station affiliated with North Carolina Central University in Durham, will broadcast a roundtable discussion of North Carolina’s economy moderated by John Quinterno of South by North Strategies.
The discussion will air at 6 pm, subject to change, on 90.7 FM (for listeners in the Raleigh-Durham area) and on the WNCU web site.
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