I have been laid off from Wells Fargo Auto Finance Since 12-08. I have not quit looking but although I have found some jobs that did not want to pay me when time came, I have been without an income since then. It is discouaging but what can you do. I was always at the top of my profession when employed but that makes not difference in this market. If you don’t have a degree.. No job. Savings are about out...Now what?
So much for hope and change...Thank you Obama
Those aren’t the real numbers, BTW. They’re from a household survey with an adjustment. We’ll see the uglier news—a little truth—soon enough.
I’m really getting sick of these articles and tv segments saying that the unemployed are quitting looking for work and have stopped looking for work. Even this article didn’t even describe a quitter although the title touted it!
How about this - count all the so called ‘quitters’ and add them to the unemployed number. They are still out there, they just aren’t being counted anymore.
They are the newly formed ‘Lost Generation’
If some State wanted to take a big bite out of the problems related to unemployment, a good bet would be to revitalize some of their small towns, as a place for thousands of people to “tread water”, until the economy improves.
The idea is to take what had been a farming community, but is now largely deserted, and put a lot of people there with the idea of their having a “guided subsistence community”, that costs a lot less than direct State aid. (And a lot more practical as well, if inflation is high, or a full depression has set in.)
Instead of money, for the most part, the State provides materials and advice on how to farm for self-sufficiency, with towns specializing in a few types of agriculture, then the State doing “commodity swaps”, so towns have most of what they need as far as food goes.
Such a situation is also labor intensive, so adults are working, children are attending school, and State aid is reduced to just those things that cannot be produced locally, such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, textiles, etc.
The big goals of such a product are first, the get the unemployed off the dole and get them working and providing for themselves, which takes pressure off the State treasury and narrows the labor market.
Second, to get the unemployed into tolerable housing, out of the cities, making them less vulnerable to crime, and keeping them in better physical condition, and taking an active part in sustaining and improving their lives.
Third, to keep their children in school and motivated to do as well as possible. In addition, learning technical and trade skills that they normally would not learn in the cities.
Fourth, to produce commodities in State that would normally be shipped from out of State, except transportation costs have become too high. Thus, extra goods could be sold in the cities, to start providing money income to the rural towns, improving their standard of living.
An idea like this has a lot of selling points for when times get very hard. It is not ideal, nor is it very long term, but just as a less expensive way for a State to take care of its citizens when there is little or no money left, and the economy has crashed. As such, it beats the heck out of the alternative, which involves a lot of unnecessary suffering.
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There are ways to earn income though it will be viewed by many as too lowly. despicable and cowardly.
Find your local police tipline numbers and when or if you find or sincerely think there is a meth lab, a fugitive or some other situation that you will be rewarded for offering information leading to the arrest and convictions of felony acts its possible to make an income.
Might as well clean up the neighborhood while a person can.