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Jobless Discrimination Continues to Plague America

There are many companies that refuse to even consider the unemployed for jobs - a harsh Catch-22 at a time when long-term joblessness is at the highest level in decades. Refusing to hire people on the basis of race, religion, age, or disability - among other categories - is illegal. But companies that turn away jobless people as a group are generally not breaking the law - at least for now. There is no hard data on discrimination against the unemployed. But there have been reports from across the country of some companies making clear in job listings that they are not interested in people who are out of work. Employment experts say that other companies have policies of only hiring people with jobs - but they do not publicly acknowledge their bias. Click here to read more.
 
 



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