Context & Background on Unemployment


CONTEXT & BACKGROUND ON UNEMPLOYMENT
HOME About the Collaborative News/Updates Contact Us National Transitional Jobs Network		These reports provide useful information, and put the need for transitional jobs in historical and policy context. U.S. Job Shortage Reaches Record Level of 12 Million Reaching a Higher Ground: Increasing Employment Opportunities for People with Prior Convictions

"I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corp to be used in simple work; more important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message to Congress on Unemployment Relief, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1933