Clapping for key workers takes place every Thursday in the UK.
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Many key workers are among the UK’s lowest paid.
Grocery workers have been essential during the pandemic. so should we be paying them more?
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After the pandemic is over, grocery workers and nurses will still be essential. But will they be paid any better?
Fewer students from abroad expected to study in the U.S.
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If fewer students from other countries enroll in US colleges and universities this fall due to COVID-19, the effects would be felt well beyond the campus, an expert warns.
Not only have people lost jobs, they have also stopped looking for work.
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Younger, unmarried or less educated workers are feeling the brunt of the economic effects of COVID-19. The fallout may deepen already existing inequalities.
Only some campus workers get to keep their jobs.
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COVID-19 has hit college and universities particularly hard, but do ‘nonessential’ employees have to suffer?
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The global financial crisis taught us recoveries needn’t be V-shaped.
Research the career paths of those who have the job you want.
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Trying to land your dream job during the COVID-19 pandemic may be a daunting challenge. Two university-based job coaches offer insights on how to think more long-term.
When the shuttered economy reopens, how many black Americans will be left out in the cold?
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Black Americans were left especially vulnerable to the economic impact of COVID-19 and history shows it will take them longer to rebound.
Working from home is an accommodation long sought by many people with disabilities.
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With vast swaths of society forced to work from home, people with disabilities can overcome many of the challenges they face in a normal office environment.
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Conducting interviews over Zoom from your own home can add extra anxiety to an already-stressful act.
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Significant numbers of key workers barely make the minimum wage.
‘Now, have I got the skills to fix this?’
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In these troubled economic times, skills and technology are key to lifting the UK out of the productivity doldrums.
Forty percent of employers have moved to virtual internships.
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Although jobs are being cut due to COVID-19-related business closures, there are still clever ways to secure meaningful work experience this summer, an internship specialist says.
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The ABS is providing near real-time data like never before. It’s labour force survey remains the most authorative way of tracking the labour market.
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Lockdown throws our relationship with work into the spotlight.
Many students scammed by for-profit colleges are still looking for student loan relief.
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For-profit colleges have a history of deceptive practices that have left thousands of students in the lurch, two higher education scholars warn.
Oxford Circus without shoppers.
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A market closure is different to a recession.
Jobs could be hard to keep or find for quite a while.
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The economic fallout from COVID-19 will likely harm new workers in distinct ways with long-term effects, three economists say.
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It’s hard to keep up with what’s regarded as essential and non-essential services.
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2.7 million jobs are at risk, 1.4 million of them immediately.