No Jobs In Sight and Unemployment Checks Running Out. Mr. President, Help Us!
Over one million people are holding their breath, waiting to see if Congress helps them. Time to start making calls:
Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution.
Because of emergency extensions already enacted by Congress, laid-off workers in nearly half the states can collect benefits for up to 79 weeks, the longest period since the unemployment insurance program was created in the 1930s. But unemployment in this recession has proved to be especially tenacious, and a wave of job-seekers is using up even this prolonged aid.
Tens of thousands of workers have already used up their benefits, and the numbers are expected to soar in the months to come, reaching half a million by the end of September and 1.5 million by the end of the year, according to new projections by the National Employment Law Project, a private research group.
Unemployment insurance is now a lifeline for nine million Americans, with payments averaging just over $300 per week, varying by state and work history. While many recipients find new jobs before exhausting their benefits, large numbers in the current recession have been unable to find work for a year or more.
Yep. I've had exactly one job interview in an entire year.
Calls are rising for Congress to pass yet another extension this fall, possibly adding 13 more weeks of coverage in states with especially high unemployment. As of June, the national unemployment rate was 9.5 percent, reaching 15.2 percent in Michigan. Even if the recession begins to ease, economists say, jobs will remain scarce for some time to come.
“If more help is not on the way, by September a huge wave of workers will start running out of their critical extended benefits, and many will have nothing left to get by on even as work keeps getting harder to find,” said Maurice Emsellem, a policy director of the employment law project.
For many desperate job seekers, any extension will seem a blessing. Pamela C. Lampley of Dillon, S.C., said she sat outside the post office last month and cried because “it was the first Wednesday in quite some time that I’ve gone to the mailbox and left without an unemployment check.” The jobless rate in her state is 12.1 percent.
the presidential number you are trying to reach is busy. He's entertaining lobbyists from all corporate industries in hopes of "changing" the system.
Bankers get free cash? Check.
Auto industry bailout? Check.
Wall Street bailout? Check.
Coming soon.....Health Insurance Industry bailout that will make the banking bailout look like chump change? Check.
But hey, wouldn't ya just love to have a beer with this Prez?
and suv's and granite counter tops on "credit" wasn't such a wise investment.
but how about splurging on military, bank bailouts, corporate bailouts, and let's not forget health insurance company bailouts, on "credit" probably won't be a wise investment either.
It's typical trickle down economics a la Ronald Reagan. Deja Vu economics.
I believe
was going by what politicians and economic geniuses call it.
was a deluge of debt that rained down on America and washed away everyone's hopes and dreams when the Reagan debt bomb burst last fall.
Q - How much like the Dodo bird are human beings?
A - We will know soon.
Worse than FAILING to reflate our former 'Great' Capitalist Bubble Economy predicated on endless and unsustainable exponential growth would be SUCCEEDING in reflating it.
Max Kaiser On the Edge 7/31/09
His best quote: The economy is a subset of the ecology.
Part 1- Intro
Part 2 - Dmitry Orlov and the Collapse Gap The American collapse will be worse than the Soviet version
Part 3 - Dr Housing Bubble - the U6 unemployment number (the real one) is about 20%.
Dmitry Orlov and Fora TV: Social Collapses Best Practices here - it is a long one but worth watching.
Life after the Oil Crash here
Paul Kingsnorth: A Wind Farm Is Not the Answer
here - a good one
Joe Bageant at AlterNet: Consciousness Capitalism: Corporations Are Now After Our Very Beings here
Sanhita Reddy at Columbia Journalism Review: (E)mission Impossible? Blogs, Web sites provide climate policy analysis lacking elsewhere here
Richard Wolff at Real News here - a good one
The L curve, income distribution in the US here
Richard Heinberg; Peak Everything here - another talk here
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Always a good informative read.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
This Pres is limp. He is rudderless as he asks Rahm Emanuel what he should try next. Of course the water boy for the Zionist Corporate Cabal will steer OB into a handover to Hillary after a dismal four years. Then with Bill's help sparks will fly. A lot of nice speechs though.
please
Imagine a Republican president pushing to extend benefits? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/02/whit... wouldn't happen Americans be damned.
I was unemployed during the Bush regime and remember first hand how my benefits ran out and Bush did not extend them at a time when a lot of Americans were out of work. There was a 3 pronged reason for that. 1) with all the talk about how pro-American the Republicans are they really don't give a shit about the middle class, it's all a marketing scam and only those is the least educated most blinded by religion. 2) "Compassonate conservative" Bush was showing his compassion by pushing Americans off the unemployment roles to hide how bad his economic numbers really were under him and 3) Bush wanted to use our tax dollars to line the pockets of the super rich, the defense contractors, big oil and Halliburton, not to help the Americans who are paying those taxes for his expensive lie based oil wars.
ObombA will probably deliver a stirring speech with big fancy words, and a serious look on his face, that will woo the masses. At that point, his corporate administration will probably announce the taxpayer bailout of Walmart to spur the economy. Trickle, trickle.
Whatever he does will be more than Bush. He ain't perfect but he's better than a fucking Republican. Which is why only those in the least educated most blinded by religion parts of the country still believe the GOP are moral folks who give a shit about them. Hence the southern regional party they've become.
A turd is better than Bush...wanna elect a turd?
If the turd is better than Bush, and if that is the only other option, then the answer would be yes. Lot of hypothetics there. At least we are moving in the right direction. Canada isn't without it's backwater elected conservatives either I might ad.
but Bush is gone and retired on a nice fat pension for life now. This is ObombA's United States now and he continues many of Bush's policies. Seems Americans are getting fleeced big time by the American Idol president. It's unfortunate. If you read my posts leading up to the election, even I was convinced he was the agent of change. Damn he's good. Wouldn't you love to have a beer with him? Did you see the wonderful fashions Michelle wears? Oh and the new puppy?
Look. You guys may have "socialize medicine" but the Netherlands you ain't. Work on Canada and we'll work on America.
don't be offended. Working on the US is working on Canada. We are like conjoined twins.
Except you guys really hate us. So much so that the ObombA administration is continuing the Bush spy program on the border. Damn, watch out for those Canadian Terrists!!
I don't know where you get we hate Canada. I like Canada and visiting Canada. Maybe the right wingers here hate Canada but they hate Europeans, blacks, hispanics, gays, and people who don't believe a bearded sky man is watching over us all. They hate everybody not unlike right wingers in any other country. Their fear, hatred and bigotry isn't limited to Canadians.
and the Department of Homeland Gestapo are keeping the Bush policies of Predator drones on the border, as well as this:
Know why? The American government fears that our citizens will flee en masse to take advantage of this healthcare reform you are about to get....hahahahahaa
If a terrists were to strike on your side of the border you'd be the first ones crying for those American predator drones to come save your asses from the evil doers! In the meantime just prey we there's enough oil for us to steal in the middle east lest we find a reason to liberate you. Lol!!!
All our 300 soldiers are busy killing those millions of evil Taliban that are threatening to conquer the world...oh wait 298 soldiers...oh wait incoming friendly fire...292 soldiers...oh wait 288 soldiers.......
At least you have health care for the survivors!
...most Americans only watch "mainstream media" and therefore "see" (what they think) are the only two options.
(dems and repubs are the same)
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Look how many STILL blame Nader for Gore's terrible campaign. If the Rethugs would have ran a better candidate than Bushie, Gore would have lost in a landslide.
And if Gore had of been treated as his own man and not another Bill Clinton by the media, and if brother Jeb had of not stolen Florida, and if pigs had wings they would fly.
But we got Bush and proved democracy was dead. Recent sightings have been encouraging, however...
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
in a tattered, torn bloodied dress limping and staggering down a garbage filled deserted main street.
Mr. Hanky for president!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCPOowojiC0&fe...
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be a Rethuglican, or a Rethuglican in Dem's clothing?
...is shit.
(no matter which way you look at it, or how it's dressed up and perfumed)
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I voted for a dead guy for Senator over John Ashcroft, and some (not me) voted for a brain dead President.....hmmm, I suppose it depends (oops) on the cabinet that will support the Turd in Chief.
However the said Turd would have to be a Repug in order to garner the support of the faithful.
'Talk to the hand'
So what happened to those in line with diabetes and heart problems?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Obama said so yesterday...
President Obama: GDP Shows Economy Headed in Right Direction
July 31, 2009 2:05 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/...
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One of the main reasons GOP governors gave for not wanting the stimulous money was because it extended unemployment benefits.
They are always concerned about the poor and umemployed.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
A door being replaced at a military base----over half a million. It's nice to see that even when the economy is in tatters, government can take even the simple expense of a screwnail, and multiply it's cost by several thousand percent.
I would like to take this opportunity to extend thanks to the GOP who have committed this nation of ours in the futil wars they are so prone to digging up and even creating in support of creating a REASON to fund their pals in the Military industrial complex. Iraq was a prime example of where their true loyalty was to this nation. While spending up to 11 billion PER WEEK at the height of our INVASION while the USA slipped into recession. Spending up to 11 billion per week in Iraq and Afghanistan while this nations infrastructure crumbled under the weight of NEGLECT! Heck of a jobs boys! Heck of a job!
Our nation’s leaders have finally passed a bill designed to get our ailing economy back on it’s feet. What’s certain is the cost: nearly 800 billion dollars. What’s not so certain is whether it shorten the recession, and how soon it will help.
But love it or hate it, if you’re unemployed, you’re almost certainly going to gain from it. Especially if you’re low income, and looking for work.
First, your unemployment checks will be last 20 weeks longer…33 if you live in a state with high unemployment. It also raises benefits by $25/week,
2nd: If you’re unemployed, if you qualify to use your former employer’s insurance: called COBRA…you’ll get help with the cost. For up to 9 months, Uncle Sam will pay 60% of the cost.
Third, the food stamp benefits are being increased by over 13%… so those on the program can keep up with the rising cost of food. States are also getting major additional funding for Medicare.
http://www.moneytalksnews.com/2009/02/17/unem...
Or Obama could have done nothing?
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Compared to what the executives and AIGs received, the working class simply got a steady stream of piss that has now trickled out to nothing.
You want to re-energize? Keep us afloat until we weather this storm.
Are we in this together or not?
If so, nobody should have any compunction to criticize another American who needs additional unemployment benefits.
If we are not in this together, then we are simply one step closer to fighting (literally) for the limited resources available to us all.
don't think a bailout for the masses is on the agenda.
For the unemployed, the package includes $43 billion for extended jobless benefits and retraining; $39 billion to help the unemployed keep their health coverage under the COBRA law and for other short-term coverage under Medicaid, and for the poorest Americans, it includes $20 billion for a temporary increase in food stamps.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/business/16...
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I image we could have done more if the recalcitrant Republicans would get on board.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
That won't interfere with your social life, internet, and cell phone addictions and lack of commitment to anything but yourself.
Have patience!
and a shot at American Idol.
But unrealistic. I suggest visiting your local recruiter
Radix Omnium Malorum Avaritia
around here in June just after schools let out for the summer. With a big ass sign saying "$20,000 BONUS".
Join the fucking armed forces and see the world. You might even get to kill for the Corporate Cabal. You might even get to fight your own fellow citizens during the upcoming civil unrest.
Feds can just print up another Trillion dollars China will be happy to have the American people as collateral.
Health Insurance firms will soon be all Chinese owned too!
Same as the old boss, just a little more demanding.
One final payment and the retiree is rolled into the mass grave.
...make Burnbanke (and Goldman/Sachs) write everyone's unemployment check for the next two years...
...actually we oughtta make him pay everyone (in cash)
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Eat more fast food. That's where the jobs are now. It will also support our health care giants. There's a Subway in the newly remodeled Wal Mart up the road. Perfect. All of Murka in one stop!
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
Wal-Mart weighs role in U.S. H1N1 vaccination plans...Wal-Mart Stores Inc is discussing with U.S. health officials the possibility of putting vaccination sites at some of its stores...
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-SwineFlu/i...
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Then they will be the total 'cradle to grave' experience, a true City store #1 in every town.
Its rather the soviet experience visiting and shopping at one of the Wallyworlds, any colour and style you like as long as its the latest approved fashion for the masses.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is strongly opposing a proposal in Congress, which enjoys the support of over half of the U.S. House of Representatives, to audit the Fed.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/07/28/busin...
"true colors shining through?"
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
...is shining through.
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State Rep. Cynthia Davis thinks hunger is a "positive motivator"
from 'think progress'
In her June newsletter, State Rep. Cynthia Davis (R-MO) provided several “commentaries” to a press release from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services on a summer food program.
The program provides “food during the summer for thousands of low-income Missouri children who rely on the school cafeteria for free or reduced-price meals during the regular school year.”
Davis, who serves as the chairwoman of the Missouri House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families, questioned whether the program is “warranted,” and extolled the hidden benefits of child hunger:
Who’s buying dinner? Who is getting paid to serve the meal? Churches and other non-profits can do this at no cost to the taxpayer if it is warranted. [...] Bigger governmental programs take away our connectedness to the human family, our brotherhood and our need for one another. [...] Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals? Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break. [...] It really is all about increasing government spending, which means an increase in taxes for us to buy more free lunches and breakfasts.
A report by Feeding America found that one in five Missouri children currently lives with hunger. Taking apart Davis’ other arguments, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial noted that most of the summer feeding program sites are actually hosted by churches and that the program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, fed 3.7 million meals at a total cost of less than $9.5 million last summer — “a pretty good use of federal money.”
Submitted by Bill Dalton on June 23, 2009 - 1:59pm.
with legislators like this of course the people will flock in droves to re-elect GOPers. please, how does that follow? if theyd had ideas that worked theyd still be in power, and wouldnt have resoundingly lost two consecutive election cycles. theyre hoping to win by betting the farm on Obama 'failing', with their considerable obstructive and destructive help of course. this isnt for the good of the country, it never was or will be, its for the good of the GOP. they dont care for the middle/lower classes any more than Bill Clinton isnt a philanderer
Hunger is a great motivator:
So you try to get a job as a ranch hand only to be told AMG owns them all, and they're not hiring
So you try to go fishing, but the lake is either owned by a hydro-electric plant, or it's polluted by a factory downstream,
So you try to go hunting, but the woods are being cleared for the latest real estate development
So you try to get a job helping to clear the woods only to be told their jobs are full of people they hired out of state.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and need to feed your family, who knows what steps you are going to go to or level of crime you might take?
know whether to cry or laugh.
n/t
Put another way, feed them and you forestall the revolution.
Ha!
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Thassawhy Kaiser Wilhelm created one of the first Welfare States in Germany.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Small business was the backbone of the American economy. We have let Wall Street big business dominate our landscape for decades and it has been downhill for the middle class. Workforce wage earners rarely receive the trickle down. Most of the trickle down money in business now days go to the execs, with large paychecks added on by huge stock options and bonuses. This has been a proportional nightmare for the American workforce. Wall Street has become a corrupt out of control enterprise that must be stopped.
This is not my father's America
People making over $250,000 in NYC are struggling!! Struggling I say!! What about them???
"Redistribution of wealth, from rich to poor"
"I know this is hard for people to understand."
"They’re really struggling."
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/31/giuliani-...
http://anntichristscoulter.blogspot.com/2009/...
splurged on anything. I never took out a home equity loan. I drive a 10 year old Honda. I didn't rack up tens of thousands in credit card debt, although some people have had to make due any way they can and that might mean buying stuff on plastic now.
I had and still have a little savings.
I served my country and wore the USAF uniform. I volunteered with Big Brothers, Special Olympics, Little League Baseball, and amateur boxing.
I paid for college with loans and worked at the same time.
I have 3 degrees.
I paid my student loans off.
I have an 809 credit score.
I have never been charged with or convicted of a crime.
I have received 3 moving violation citations for driving in my life.
I have been unemployed for 58 weeks.
I have applied for over 300 jobs.
I have had 3 interviews.
My unemployment benefits ended this morning after I filed today's claim.
So if you are trying to refer to everybody under the same brush, you may have heard this before...."Check Yourself B4 U Wreck Yourself".
My Sunday suggestion.
If your comment was just a conversation starter, my apologies.
Most of us have done what are considered "the right things", believe it or not.
He's too busy groveling to the Cons every chance he gets.
These greedy/cheap/broke employers who do everything under the sun to deny an ex-employee unemployment benefits in the first place.
Is there a web site that you can expose these bastards?
Playgirl?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
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Never one to let too much time go by without blaming Obama for everything, Suzy nails him for the poor economy again. Yup, he sucks because he can't literally work miracles.
Here's a bit of 'facty' stuff for you Suzy:
3rd quarter 2008 GDP: -2.7%
4th quarter 2008 GDP: -5.4%
1st quarter 2009 GDP: -6.4%
2nd quarter 2009 GDP: -1.0%
GDP leads the way out of recession Suzy. Employment comes later.
And yes, UE benefits should be extended for as long as it takes. What's the deal with the Obama hatred, did he stand you up at the Prom or something?
Jeebus, what would our problems be if McLame was Prez.???
My preference was to have Nader as President, not either of the representatives of the Corporatist Party. The party of wealth and greed.
I am not always one to defend Susie, but say what you will, you should spell her name correctly.
Obama has been a supporter of the massive transfer to the Financial Sector, the Wall Street Mafia as I call them. Unfortunately he has failed to identify correctly the cause of the economic collapse.
That failure will forestall an improvement in conditions.
Massive fraud and greed by the Wall Street Gangsters. Simon Johnson and John Talbott in series of correspondence published by Salon lay out the case as well as anyone.
In three parts One Two Three
Talbott who is one who should know, starts with the phrase: A Vast Criminal Enterprise
This has led to a loss of vast sums of valuation of individual wealth by the citizens of the nation, at all levels. $6 trillion in housing value, gone. $8 trillion in stock equity valuation, gone. 401k and pension funds pummeled.
Instead of investigations we hand over vast sums to make the crooks whole.
Neil Barofsky has put the theoretical number of all of bailout programs at $23.7 Trillion.
Obama has continued unabated with the Military Industrial Complex, stopping the F-22 is fine but it is not nearly enough.
Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire, here
Unemployment is generally held to be a lagging indicator as you say, this is not an ordinary disruption. Your 2nd GDP is still -1.0%, the drop off over the cliff seems to be slowing (reportedly, the GDP, CPI have been phony for years and years, here). This number is also greatly distorted by the vast sums handed over to the financial sector.
It is another bubble.
The equity market advances because Corporations have reported profits. The profits come from cutting to, and into the bone. There has been built in the sense and certainty of ongoing bailouts. They cannot continue ad infinitum.
Until the people pay down their debt and incomes increase, there will not be a recovery.
The U6 number is at roughly 20%, the continuing and increasing defaults of Alt-A and Option ARM will add to the negative feedback loop. There is $1 Trillion in distressed Commercial mortgages that will add even more to the Financial Sector woes.
Max Kasier's most penetrating quote, the quote du jour, the economy is a subset of the ecology, is found in links here above.
We have peak oil, peak capitalism and peak everything.
There will not be a recovery in the previously understood sense. This is an L shaped disruption. °
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but you can say it, but not prove it. And saying there will not be a recovery in the previously understood sense, and implying that it's somehow Obama's fault through mishandling is plainly wrong. You said "Unfortunately he has failed to identify correctly the cause of the economic collapse." I think that you overstate your case. I know what you mean, but I seriously doubt Obama is blind to the real cause of the Wall Street and Shadow Banking debacle. Am I disappointed that he hasn't attacked these thieves aggressively for what they've done? Yes, but that doesn't equate to him not understanding the nature of the problem. Moving on, if by 'previously understood' you mean a historically typical recovery, you are correct, but that trend has been obviously changing for some time. The length of time before the employment/population ratio exceeds it's recession trough level has been increasing over the last several recessions, and was 55 months after the last recession. So if we use that trend to look at this recession, we are indeed in deep trouble. Your statement that the most recent -1% GDP number is inaccurate because it is distorted by the bank bailout seems simply false to me. If anything, the effect of the bank bailouts would appear more in future revisions of Q1 more than in Q2, just as recent revisions for 2008 reflected the losses on Wall Street.
I'm not trying to pick a fight with you, because in the broader sense of what's wrong with the economy I agree with you. I just happen to think there's far too much knee-jerk, uninformed bashing of Obama by people who are disappointed that he didn't turn out to be some sort of Messiah.
Oh, and my misspelling of Susie's name was an oversight, not an intentional slight.
I'm quite sure I've heard Obama say that himself. By and by, Green jobs for everybody! Just wait another 3-1/2 years until after the next election. Folks, those Green jobs will _never_ be outsourced. Trust Obama.
Until then, we're still a "global economy" -- neocon-based to the core. We're told we'll never return to those nasty tariffs to build up local manufacturing. So pull yourself up by your own bootstraps. Traditionally, if we look at history I'd think that would be drugs, prostitution, protection rackets, gambling, auto stripping. Kidnapping executives for ransom is popular in second and third world countries, and _without_ universal health care or a particularly free press but _with_ capital punishment and the mingling of religion and politics, I'd say we qualify. Taking down Brinks trucks has been _very_ popular in South Africa, as is Rapid Response, if you want to go legit, where you come in guns blazing in response to would-be home invaders. Or just hire yourself out as an in-place body guard. Should become a lucrative career path the way the country is spiraling. If you have _no_ self-respect, try roving street corner preacher -- should be able to save up for your own tent in no time.
Fifty eight years old , unemployed for the first time in my adult life , round one of unemployment is already exhausted , no job prospects , absolutely zero , and what to do I have no clue , none . Appears I am completely and seriously SOL ( or soon will be ) and I know that I am not the Lone Ranger . My job won't " come back " for years if it ever does at all . Ah yes , America the beautiful and our beloved precious capitalism , isn't it great ? It does my heart good that O-bummer , his economic team and the whores in DC bailed out out the scum bags on Wall Street who's greed caused this disaster in the first place and that they are all sitting pretty once again ... my family and I are not worthy after all .I got it ! I'll write a book , "The Audacity of a Dope" ( me ) , believing Obama could / would over come the corruption in DC and clean it up . Maybe a best seller , a lot of people could identify I am sure .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
That people laid off (made long term unemployed by downsizing employers) expect their old jobs back in some distant future. This is naive in the extreme, if a company doesn't need workers and survives with less, they will not (re)employ more without enhanced production gains. And does anyone expect their exact old desk/machine to be there as they left it many months/years ago !? Not to mention being taken back on at the old salary, that is a pipe dream.
If a company shuts down for a month maybe, anything longer than say three to six months and you can consider the layoff to be pretty permanent.
Needed by cynical bureaucrats who privately sit back and laugh at the rubes for being so dumb to fork over so much to accomplish the impossible (a drug free 'Murikah, an' all fer de kiddies, donthca know?).
All that money would certainly foot the bill for extending unemployment bennies, now, wouldn't it? So why aren't so-called 'progressives' pounding the tables and demanding that that money be re-allocated?
Is and always has been a form of law enforcement stimulus and a way of creating jobs for discharged veterans, I guess the thinking goes is that its better they dress then up in LEO uniforms and they run around playing cops'n'morons than sit at home stewing on welfare and possible going postal in the future.
And also I guess the powers that be do not trust the people on the left side of the bell curve to behave or act civilized while under the influence of legalized drugs, going by any local newspapers crime reports its prob true.
I enjoyed reading your article. I'm beyond frustrated and freaking out with the unemployment crisis. Its been 9 months so far and ive only had 3 interviews. 2 interviews got killed due to cancellation of the job postings. One was given to someone (recently laid off) who had much more experience. I put together an expression of my "last breath" hoping for things to change, below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytr_FpoCOb8
What about all those workers, I mean ex-workers, who were not eligible for unemployment? I think there are many more of those who worked 2 part time jobs or were independent contractors or self employed who have zero to fall back on- many who, like adjunct university faculty for example, may be employed on a semester by semester basis by different institutions or have varying income- they have unemployment deducted from their pay but may never be able to receive benefits if they are not rehired. What do people in this type of circumstance do and how can they be counted as part of the unemployed/underemployed population?
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