When Will Walter was laid off from his marketing position at a publishing company in February 2020, he started looking for a new job immediately. “I’ve got a wife and three daughters, from ages nine down to nine months,” Will said. “They depend on me, and I had...
From researchers that produce medical breakthroughs to teachers that support vital education initiatives, grants pay for a lot of important work Americans benefit from every day. Unfortunately, most grants have an end date—and when that date comes, people working on...
The last time Raymond Fields applied for a job with a new company, Bush had just become president—no, not George W. Bush, but his father, George H.W. Bush. Early in his career, Raymond was a young go-getter. He applied for a delivery truck driver position at a...
Before his layoff in early 2020, Roger Slowinski had never applied for a job online. “I’d been with my company for 28 years, through a few acquisitions,” Roger said. “I started out as a field service engineer, then when the company moved me to Omaha, I did tech...
Getting laid off can be stressful for anyone. But getting laid off after decades at a company—when you’re the family’s primary breadwinner—is a truly disorienting ordeal. Jennifer O’Shasky experienced this firsthand in 2018, when she was let go from her business...
