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Income, Employment & Education: Employment
Homeless people typically experience challenges with finding employment in the formal labour market, which is subject to taxation and regulation, and often provides benefits. Although people who are homeless would prefer to have regular jobs, as opposed to surviving by such strategies as panhandling, squeegeeing and the sex trade, being homeless makes it very difficult to obtain and maintain formal employment. The education levels of people who are homeless are generally lower than the general public (there are high numbers of high school drop outs). They often do not have the applicable skills or experience required to find a job that pays a living wage. Additionally, being homeless makes job seeking and retention next to impossible. Not having a home means that people do not have an address to put on a resume, a phone number for job call backs, and a safe place to prepare for job interviews. Being without a home means not having the opportunity to recover from a day's ...work in a safe environment where they can shower, get a good sleep, prepare their own food (including food to take to work) and recover from illness or injury. Even when a homeless person is able to find employment, it is often on the margins of the economy. They are forced to work in unsafe and unregulated jobs. Often they are paid under the table.

AUTHOR: Power, Asetha (2008) Homeless Hub. [Show More][Show Less]


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A Canadian Homelessness Research Network (CHRN) initiative. The CHRN has received financial support from the Government of Canada’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

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