Team A Presentation Notes
Learning Team A
PHL/458
March 24, 2014
Samuel Dale
Team A Presentation Notes
Who is your audience?
The long term unemployed
Employers
Who are the long term unemployed?
As of December 2012, 12.2 million people were unemployed: 7.8 percent of the 155.5-million-person labor force. 4.7 million, 39 percent of all unemployed workers, have been actively searching for a job for 27 weeks or longer. (Mitchell, 2013)
Studies show that, relative to currently employed workers, the long-term unemployed tend to be less educated and are more likely to be nonwhite, unmarried, disabled, impoverished, and to have worked previously in construction occupations. (Mitchell, 2013)
Overall, the long-term unemployed are spread fairly evenly across the entire age distribution.
Blacks make up 22.6 percent of the long-term unemployed. Hispanics make up 19 percent.
Single parents make up 13.3 percent of the long-term unemployed; single people without children also make up a disproportionate amount of long-term unemployed.
There are few gender differences in the long-term unemployed.
6.5 percent of the long term unemployed have a disability/health limitation.
Among the long-term unemployed, 34.1 percent live in households that are below the poverty line. (Mitchell, 2013)
Employers are also our audience.
More than 300 companies have pledged to help the long-term unemployed. For example, Apple, Wal-Mart, and General Motors have agreed to assess their hiring practices. President Obama has established a grant through the Labor Department to support public-private partnerships to help prepare and place the long-term unemployed in jobs. (Eilperin, 2014)
Strategies for persuading the long-term unemployed to accept our proposal
Proposal: Protest against Congress not extending unemployment benefits
Strategy # 1 - Give the Unemployed Claimants Tools to persuade them to accept our proposal
Strategy # 2 – Provide the Unemployed with Instruments to help persuade them to accept our proposal
Strategy #3 – Assist the Unemployed with the 3 Keys for a successful interview to help persuade them to accept our proposal
Critical Examination of Best Resolution 1
Offer free degrees/certifications in under-manned areas
Critical Examination of Best Resolution 2
Give incentives or tax breaks to companies that hire full time employees that have been unemployed
Revised Argument
REFERENCES
Eilperin, J. (2014, January). Post Politics. Retrieved from The Washington Post: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/01/31/obama-to-host-white-house-summit-on-long-term-unemployed-firday/
Mitchell, J. (2013, July). Retrieved from Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412885-who-are-the-long-term-unemployed.pdf
DGA Action. (n.d.). Tell John Boehner and the GOP to extend unemployment insurance. Retrieved from https://secure.democraticgovernors.org/tell-john-boehner-extend-unemployment-insurance?utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=emp&utm_source=g_d
Learning Team A
PHL/458
March 24, 2014
Samuel Dale
Team A Presentation Notes
Who is your audience?
The long term unemployed
Employers
Who are the long term unemployed?
As of December 2012, 12.2 million people were unemployed: 7.8 percent of the 155.5-million-person labor force. 4.7 million, 39 percent of all unemployed workers, have been actively searching for a job for 27 weeks or longer. (Mitchell, 2013)
Studies show that, relative to currently employed workers, the long-term unemployed tend to be less educated and are more likely to be nonwhite, unmarried, disabled, impoverished, and to have worked previously in construction occupations. (Mitchell, 2013)
Overall, the long-term unemployed are spread fairly evenly across the entire age distribution.
Blacks make up 22.6 percent of the long-term unemployed. Hispanics make up 19 percent.
Single parents make up 13.3 percent of the long-term unemployed; single people without children also make up a disproportionate amount of long-term unemployed.
There are few gender differences in the long-term unemployed.
6.5 percent of the long term unemployed have a disability/health limitation.
Among the long-term unemployed, 34.1 percent live in households that are below the poverty line. (Mitchell, 2013)
Employers are also our audience.
More than 300 companies have pledged to help the long-term unemployed. For example, Apple, Wal-Mart, and General Motors have agreed to assess their hiring practices. President Obama has established a grant through the Labor Department to support public-private partnerships to help prepare and place the long-term unemployed in jobs. (Eilperin, 2014)
Strategies for persuading the long-term unemployed to accept our proposal
Proposal: Protest against Congress not extending unemployment benefits
Strategy # 1 - Give the Unemployed Claimants Tools to persuade them to accept our proposal
- Go to the unemployment offices with an electronic device and convince claimants to sign a petition to extend unemployment benefits by accessing website created by democraticgoverners.org (DGA Action, n.d.)
- Create a twitter page for people to follow with new job posting / updates and once job is filled remove and replace it with a new vacancy
- Initiate and implement a picket line in every state in which the senate voted against extending unemployment benefits
Strategy # 2 – Provide the Unemployed with Instruments to help persuade them to accept our proposal
- Create a non-profit organization to match unemployed individuals with companies that have vacant positions with the Department of Labor
- Collaborate with colleges and companies to get unemployed trained and hired
- Create a program to re-train the Department of Labor staff on getting the unemployed hired making their goal to have every position filled in their database
Strategy #3 – Assist the Unemployed with the 3 Keys for a successful interview to help persuade them to accept our proposal
- Collect and Provide free business attire for the unemployed to go on interviews
- Assist the unemployed with writing a successful resume’
- Provide mock interviews to train the unemployed for interviews
Critical Examination of Best Resolution 1
Offer free degrees/certifications in under-manned areas
- Concentrate mostly on areas that have high volume vacant positions
- Team up with employers that have open positions available
- Create training for skilled workers to train and certify potential employees
- Focus on degrees / certifications that are in high demand
Critical Examination of Best Resolution 2
Give incentives or tax breaks to companies that hire full time employees that have been unemployed
- Offer tax breaks to companies that hire unemployed individuals
- Offer low-cost benefit packages to companies that hire unemployed individuals
- Reimburse the employer financial portion of the first six months of new employee benefit package
- Reimburse employers’ 90-day training period for the new employees
- Hire individuals that have been certified by the degree / certification program
Revised Argument
- Argument one- If the employee takes the initiative to learn new skills it will add value for the employer. The employer will enjoy employees with a vested interest of the companies success as their abilities improve.
- Argument Two- If companies provided training approved by government funding it would increase the interest of potential employees and reduce turnover of staff.
REFERENCES
Eilperin, J. (2014, January). Post Politics. Retrieved from The Washington Post: http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/01/31/obama-to-host-white-house-summit-on-long-term-unemployed-firday/
Mitchell, J. (2013, July). Retrieved from Urban Institute: http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/412885-who-are-the-long-term-unemployed.pdf
DGA Action. (n.d.). Tell John Boehner and the GOP to extend unemployment insurance. Retrieved from https://secure.democraticgovernors.org/tell-john-boehner-extend-unemployment-insurance?utm_medium=ads&utm_campaign=emp&utm_source=g_d