Welcome to Over 50 and Out of Work!  If this is your first visit, you might find this tutorial useful in in navigating the site.

Over 50 and Out of Work is an ongoing multimedia project that uses VIDEO to document the stories and impact of the Great Recession. There are a few different ways you can view the project:

 

1.  The most detailed aspect of the project is the 100 Stories section. There you will find 100 videos of unemployed Americans over 50 telling their stories in video interviews ranging from 3 to 7 minutes. When you visit the page, scroll down to view the photographs and short quotes from each subject. When you’ve picked someone that you want to watch, click on his or her photograph, and you will be taken to a page where the video will automatically play. To narrow down the number of videos on the page, you can use the three filters at the top of the page. These will help you hone in on the videos that are most interesting to you by selecting a certain age range, location, or industry.

Because there are so many videos, and it’s hard to know which ones you might want to watch, we’ve labeled them all with “tags”. Tags are helpful little markers that correspond to the themes that each subject talks about in his or her interview. A good example might be “Age Discrimination” or “Health Insurance”. Here are a few ways you can use the tags:

- One way is to use the search box at the top of the website. Just type in any word or phrase that you’d like to learn about (for example “Unemployment Insurance”) and hit enter (or click on the magnifying glass). Any videos which have been ‘tagged’ with that word or phrase will show up in the results!

- Another way to use tags is to navigate from one video to a similar video. So let’s say you’re already on the page for Rudy Limas (he’s one of our interviewees from Oregon). Below his video is a list of all the tags that we’ve selected as relevant to his video. Click on one of them (for example, Sole Source of Family Support), and you’ll be taken to a list of all the videos on the site that share that tag.

 

2.  To provide some context for the 100 Stories videos, we have also conducted a number of Expert interviews, ranging from economists and professors to politicians and activists. Their videos can be found at the Experts page. Just as with the 100 Stories videos, scroll down the page to see a photo and brief description of each subject. When you’ve picked one that you want to watch, click on his or her photograph and you will be taken to a page where the video will automatically play.

 

3.  On the Documentary page, you will find some videos that we have produced as “Chapters” of a documentary film that is currently in production. Each video focuses on a different theme, issue, or location that we have covered during the course of our project. More videos are added regularly, so be sure to Stay in Touch!

 

4.  Finally, our Blog also houses a collection of different videos. There is a series of videos about Older Entrepreneurs, a series of User-Submitted videos, and others as well. To see these videos, visit the Blog and click on one of the categories in the list on the right-hand side of the page. Each category will provide you with a list of posts that have been tagged with that category. Some are videos, and some are text.

 

While video is the main component of our site, we also have a Resources page with links to both helpful Organizations as well as Articles and Research about older jobseekers, the Great Recession, and more.

If you’re interested in numbers and statistics related to unemployment and older jobseekers, check out our Data page, with graphs of unemployment rate, unemployment level, and duration of unemployment for workers 50 and up.

The Interact section of the site is a place to leave comments and have a discussion with other viewers about the project and what you have seen here.

If you’d like to learn more about the project, visit our About page.

If you’d like to learn more about us, visit the Team page.

For answers to frequently asked questions, check out the FAQ page.

Finally, to get in touch with us, you can either use the Contact page or sign up for our Newsletter.