CNN exclusive: Obama says Walmart, Apple, others to help jobless [View all]

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Source: CNN

- The White House has secured commitments from some of the nation's largest companies to a plan to boost hiring of the long-term unemployed.
"What we have done is to gather together 300 companies, just to start with, including, some of the top 50 companies in the country, companies like Walmart, and Apple, Ford and others, to say let's establish best practices," President Barack Obama told CNN Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview.
"Because they've been unemployed ... so long, folks are looking at that gap in the resume and they're weeding them out before these folks even get a chance for an interview," said Obama.
As the economy slowly recovers from the recession, the number of workers who have not found a job for at least six months or more has grown.
"Do not screen people out of the hiring process just because they've been out of work for a long time," said the President.

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