While the job market remains solid and the overall unemployment rate is low, there are signs of weakness, like the growing percentage of people who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer.
Other indicators, like elevated joblessness for recent college graduates and falling employment for entry-level software engineers, tell a similar story.
I’ve been covering the impact of these trends and am focusing on the financial and psychological toll of being unemployed for long stretches, as well as the steps that people are taking to find new jobs.
If you are in this position, I’d like to hear from you.
I’ll read every response and won’t include your name in a story unless I have contacted you first and gotten permission. I won’t share your contact information outside our newsroom.
Noam Scheiber is a Times reporter covering white-collar workers, focusing on issues such as pay, artificial intelligence, downward mobility and discrimination. He has been a journalist for more than two decades.
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