Mitchell Hartman
speaker
1,173 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6d ago
Mitchell Hartman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.
It used to be that first-time jobless claims provided a pretty good snapshot of the labor market.
She says fewer people who get laid off are applying for unemployment insurance.
Many states now offer less than 26 weeks of benefits.
Eligibility's been tightened, and unemployment checks are anemic.
It replaces so little of prior income.
People are better off taking some sort of terrible gig job than they are collecting unemployment.
Fewer than one in three unemployed people are even eligible, says University of Michigan economist Betsy Stevenson.
Meaning low and falling jobless claims?
She says it is pretty good if you have a job and can keep it, but...
Meanwhile, the percentage of people who've been job searching for six months or longer is up sharply over the past year.
Economist Daniel Zhao at jobsite Glassdoor says these workers are much less likely to reject any job offers they get.
They feel like they don't really have options.
Younger, less experienced workers are also facing big challenges, says economist Sneha Puri at the Indeed Hiring Lab.
While senior level job postings are up 15 percent year over year.
They're actually down 6.3 percent for entry level roles.
At the same time, more experienced workers are applying for those entry-level positions, increasing the competition for recent high school and college grads.
I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.
The last time Bea Velasquez lost Medicaid coverage was 2017.
My anxiety went up.
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