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Today on Your Call: What Needs To Be Done To Create Good Paying Jobs?

On today’s Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about the rate of job growth in the US. For the past two years, more than 23 million American have been unemployed with no prospects in finding jobs. Some have stopped looking. So which sectors are hiring? Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are you looking for a job? What’s your experience been like? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Sylvia Allegretto, a labor economist and co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Arthur Delaney, a staff reporter at Huffington Post where he writes about unemployment related issues.

Sharon Williams, Executive Director of JobTrain

Web Resources:

JobTrain, an accredited nonprofit job training and career placement institution that serves 7,000-8,000 low-income people annually through a variety of programs.

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