Volunteering lifts job prospects of the jobless, By Michael A. Fletcher, June 17, 2013, Washington Post: “Unemployed Americans stand a much better chance of finding a paying job if they first work for free. That is the key finding from a new federal study that is billed as the first empirical examination of the benefits of volunteering for out-of-work Americans. The report, to be released Tuesday by the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal agency that encourages and facilitates volunteerism, found that jobless Americans increase their odds of finding work by 27 percent if they volunteer…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty