responded to and you can t forget about the flight delays. yes, you are there when it matters. bhen i look at this photo and see the testimony about how to get long-term unemployed americans back to work give everen before a roomp of empty chairs that to you this crisis confronting our country simply doesn t matter and make no mistake, this is a crisis. not just for those who fall into chronic joblessness, but also for the u.s. economy. it s what the national employment law project has called the real cliff that threatens our economy. there are 4.8 million people who have been unemployed beyond the six months. people who have been out of work so long they just stopped looking. people s choz joblessness marks discrimination averse to hiring the long-term unemployed. who needs you to be sitting in that chair finding policy
chronic joblessness is a direct cause or the growth of the illegal economy and with that is a culture of gunshot wounds. reporter: mays is working for a transit company, clean for 13 years. but he never did get that electrician s job. once a felon, always a felon. so that s what generally leads a person back to the life of crime, because they feel like once they ve committed a crime, that it s no use now. what i hope can come out of this is that those same individuals that were thinking like that can now have a sense of hope. and this program note, fighting the financial crisis from the pulpit. the black church has fought for civil and human rights and now is waging war on debt. that s coming thursday, october 21 at 9:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. all right, this might be the perfect weekend for a family
chronic joblessness is a direct cause for the growth of the illegal or informal economy. and with that is a culture of gunshowounds. reporter: now clean for nearly 13 years, mays is working for a transit company. but he never did get that electrician s job. once a felon, always a felon. so that s what generally leads a person back to the life of crime, because they feel like once they ve committed a crime, that it s no use now. what i hope can come out of this is that those same individuals that were thinking like that can now have a sense of hope. elam, rter: stephanie cnn, cincinnati. okay. today s mission possible. rufus hannah used to be meless. he was exploited for a series of videos called bum fights that showed homeless people performing dangerous stunts in return for beer and vodka. a businessman befriended him and
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a person as well. that s a privilege. getting back to jobs. i think it is easy to dodge it and create this idea that there have been jobbed saved. maybe. the problem now is we have joblessness that is going to become permanent for some people. chronic joblessness across the country which is not going to get better necessarily, even as unemployment sort of sean: how did you feel about his answer? your answer was specific about okay we ve never used the standard jobs saved versus real jobs created. i saw you pressed, i saw you went back in. i know you wanted a better answer. what think of the answer? i thought the answer was craft i thought it sounded good. like i said before if you are answering the question with it could have been worse. it is not good enough for the american people, in my home state len 12% across the nation near 10% this is a problem because people even over 60 now looking for jobs,