From a story by Annie Lowrey in the NYTimes today:
“I’ve been turned down from McDonald’s because I was told I was too articulate,” she says. “I got denied a job scrubbing toilets because I didn’t speak Spanish and turned away from a laundromat because I was ‘too pretty.’ I’ve also been told point-blank to my face, ‘We don’t hire the unemployed.’ And the two times I got real interest from a prospective employer, the credit check ended it immediately.”
See here for a related paper on duration dependence and long-term unemployment in the great recession by Kory Kroft, Fabian Lange, Larry Katz, and Matt Notowidigdo.
