Monday, February 20, 2012

Real Hope for the Long-Term Unemployed?

My editor at The Atlantic issued me a challenge: "For your column this week, can you propose something that would offer real hope to the long-term unemployed?"

HERE is what I wrote.
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5 comments:

  1. Leonard CraneFebruary 20, 2012 at 2:51 PM

    Wow, Dr. Nemko, getting published (and, presumably, paid) by The Atlantic is a success in itself. Congrats.

    Good advice of yours, too. But then I've been reading your prose for years so that fact is less surprising! What with 23 million Americans unemployed according to recent government statistics, and heaven knows how many others underemployed, this counsel is a tonic.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 20, 2012 at 9:41 PM

    Did you watch 60 Minutes last night? They did a piece about a program for the long-term unemployed called Platform to Employment. See: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57380880/a-new-jobs-program-for-people-trapped-in-unemployment/

    Do you think having something like this online would be beneficial?

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  3. Marty NemkoFebruary 21, 2012 at 6:45 PM

    Thanks, Leonard. Yes, I'm privileged to have a weekly TheAtlantic.com column as well as a separate WashingtonPost.com column called The Big Idea, where each time, I propose a disruptive idea for solving a major societal problem.

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  4. Marty NemkoFebruary 21, 2012 at 6:56 PM

    Absolutely, Anonymous. ANY subject could, across the nation, be better taught if it was taught by a dream-team of instructors: high school, college, job retraining, (ahem) virtually anything.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 12:56 PM

    Udacity.com is a move toward providing engineering courses online for free taught by first-rate professors. They even provide "office hours".

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