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Re:The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment by xentronium on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:12PM (#5553974)
> There is an actual correlation between long term unemployment and being unemployable because of lack of skills and incompetence, or serious personality defects, such as drug addiction, mental disorders, criminality, violent behavior and laziness.

There is an actual correlation between being black and drug addiction, criminality &c.

Discriminating on skin color is illegal, though.

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Re:The Terrifying Reality of Long-Term Unemployment by Flimm on Monday April 15, 2013 @04:44PM (#5554208)
If you read two resumes that were identical in every way, except that one had experience listed and the other had none, wouldn't you go for the first one? If not, what's the point of listing experience at all?
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