Prior to the war there had been high unemployment, bringing with it consequential vagrancy and begging, and these crimes soon became much less common as even the
hardcore unemployed found jobs.
The ultimate sanction, for the
hardcore unemployed who refuse to turn up to meetings and interviews, would be the loss of four weeks' Jobseekers' Allowance (JSA).
Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain has signalled a significant break from Blairite reforms to get the
hardcore unemployed into work.
Up to 50,000 "
hardcore unemployed" will be questioned regularly about their efforts to find work as part of a New Year crackdown on long-term welfare claimants.
According to Rast, Zurich graffiti artists come largely from student ranks, not the poor or
hardcore unemployed. Thus, an arrest could jeopardise their future plans.
Cooperatives in Argentina may be offering an answer to the quation of how to graduate the
hardcore unemployed and desperately poor segment of a population into middle class consumers.
Also seen as excluded from the center are
hardcore unemployed people and those with various disabilities or mental illness.
CHANCELLOR Gordon Brown was today launching a crackdown on the
hardcore unemployed, targeting some of the worst jobless blackspots.
Suffice it to say that, in American context, it is jarring to read such claims when the United States has historically low unemployment rates and when even the formerly
hardcore unemployed are getting jobs.
Several have been homeless; most of the rest are what's known as the
hardcore unemployed. And quite a few of them, oddly enough, are already graduates of D.C.'s private trade schools.
Granted, there is a
hardcore unemployed group who have no inclination to work but my heart goes out to those of all ages who desperately seek work, whether from this country or abroad, and are willing to learn no matter what age, ability or culture.
Each of these men and women had held a job before, but many had been out of work more than two years and had come to view themselves as
hardcore unemployed in a region where an opening for a dishwasher at an all-night diner drew more than a dozen applicants.