If you live in Tennessee and unemployed, you are probably struggling to find a suitable job. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a program that helped you find a suitable training program, told you which careers were in demand, helped you locate potential employers and to search for job openings? The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Department has this very program. It is called “The Source”. The website address is www.sourcetn.org.

This article will give you a brief but useful guide on how to perform each of the tasks we described in the introduction.

The loss of health insurance is often the biggest blow a family receives when the main breadwinner loses her job. After all, you can always move in with family and friends if worst comes to worst and they can help with housing and food expenses, but if you lose your health insurance, the smallest medical intervention can push you into bankruptcy. In the worst cases, you may not have the resources to receive the treatment or buy the medicines you need.

The State of Tennessee offers assistance to unemployed workers who have lost their jobs due to foreign trade or whose pensions are taken over by the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation or PBGC.

Special unemployment problems require special unemployment measures. In the last few years even workers of federal agencies which though their job was recession-proof have suffered the effects of cash-strapped agencies that are left without another choice but to let workers go. The situation is even worse for workers who suffer the devastating effects of natural disasters and see storms, floods and tornadoes destroy not only their homes and communities but also their jobs, their livelihood. This article will look into two federal programs that can help you with unemployment compensation while you search for work, which you may not have heard of before: the UCX and the DUA.

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