Missing America’s Job Bank

Workforce Management
November 3rd, 2008

The Bush administration has sought to help out workers and businesses in these trying times by launching a new Web site with a number of resources. But www.EconomicRecovery.gov has shortcomings. And they call into question yet again the administration’s decision last year to shut down the public job board America’s Job Bank.
The new site offers assistance on topics including unemployment insurance, local job openings and retirement security information.
“We want to make information easily accessible and quickly available to American workers affected by the economic downturn,” Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao said in a statement.
Kudos to Chao and other officials for trying to create a helping hub for workers, who confront decimated 401(k) retirement accounts, ever-clearer signs of a recession and an unemployment rate that climbed 1.4 percentage points from September 2007 to September 2008, to 6.1 percent.
But key information is not necessarily “easily accessible” or “quickly available” on the new site. [Full story: http://workforce.com/wpmu/globalwork/2008/11/03/missing_americas_job_bank/]