Posted on 08/02/2010 3:18:07 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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Ms. Jarrin is part of a hard-luck tribe of jobless whose members have taken to calling themselves “99ers,” because they have exhausted the maximum 99 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits that they can claim.
For them, the resolution recently of the lengthy Senate scrum over extending jobless benefits was no balm. The measure renewed two federal programs that extended jobless benefits in this recession beyond the traditional 26 weeks to anywhere from 60 to 99 weeks, depending on the state’s unemployment rate. But many jobless have now exceeded those limits. They are adjusting to a new, harsh reality with no income.
With long-term unemployment at record levels, about 1.4 million people were out of work for 99 weeks or more in June, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Not all of them received unemployment benefits, but for many of those who did, the modest payments were a lifeline that enabled them to maintain at least a veneer of normalcy, keeping a roof over their heads, putting gas in their cars, paying electric and phone bills.
Without the checks, many like Ms. Jarrin, who lost her job as director of client services at a small technology company in March 2008, are beginning to tumble over the economic cliff. For them, the last vestiges of their former working class or middle-class lives are gone; it is inescapable now that they are indigent.
Ms. Jarrin said she wept as she drove away from her old life last month, wondering if she would ever be able to reclaim it.
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Nevertheless, the political appetite to help people like Ms. Jarrin appears limited.
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She says none of her three adult sons are in a position to help her.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
You don't get it...There are tens of millions out of work...Ya think they could all just go out and get two 10 dollar an hour jobs in this economic meat grinder?
Come on...That would mean there are many millions of jobs paying $10.00 an hour, readily available...
You'll have to start deporting the *millions* of illegals that hold those $10. an hour jobs before that ever happens.
I have friends (husband and wife). The husband lost his first job after 22 years when AT&T closed his place of employment. He worked another job for 12 years until that job disappeared too. In the meantime, his wife has been working two jobs. She works in an office on weekdays and on weekends she gives out samples at the supermarket. They used to be devoted hockey fans — followed the Pittsburgh Penguins just about everywhere they played. When times got tough, there went the Penguins games, among other things.
The point is that when times get tough, if you are able bodied, you do what you have to do to stay alive. You cannot depend on government to take care of you forever.
At the real risk of being called a male chauvinist pig, take a look at the picture in the NY Times article.
Did you ever notice how all the stories we saw from last summer about “funemployment” and how men were connecting on very personal levels with their children they didn’t have the chance to bond with, until they became happily unemployed, have completely disappeared?
I have not seen one of those stories in months if not a year.
Wonder why that is? /sarc
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride...
That wasn't my point.
NY Times: “Desperation Grows as Unemployment Benefits End”\
English translation: “Employment Grows as Unemployment Benefits End”
In 99 weeks she could have found some kind of job even if it was working for Molly Maid.
Too proud to lower herself to manual labor? That pride will go when she gets hungry.
If I were faced with her situation, I’d be spending my last $260 on printing up house cleaning and yard work fliers and passing them out door to door personally. Probably make plenty of money but she’d have to get dirty.
I have one brother that just milked an insurance company for 200,000. He got 73,000. H now has 11,000 and he does not have a place to live.Now..That is genius.
Okay. She is in a rough situation and she probably can’t fix it alone. God and a good church could help.
Get down to the marinas and start washing boats. The standard rate for boat cleaning is $3.50 per foot. You NEVER run out of clients.
Get down to the marinas and start washing boats. The standard rate for boat cleaning is $3.50 per foot. You NEVER run out of clients.
You’re right. People that just want a job are in for trouble. They need to open their eyes and get off their butt.
Wonder how that Hopey-Changy thing is working for her...
You’re right. Around here $10 an hour would be an above average job. Of course our town is around 40% Mexican.
First of all no matter what kind of mom she may be her children need to assist her. Second how did she manage to get in debt for $92,000 for her education?
“I owe $92,000 for an education which is basically worthless,” she said. WOW
I love it when people say ‘get 2 jobs ya bum’ when someone is saying ‘I can’t find even one’. Ivory tower thinking of the worst kind.
For all those people out there a job, I got a new job, sold my house, and found a part-time job to supplant my new full-time job.
This all happened in the latter half of 2009. Anyone can get a job; it takes a resume, hundreds of phone calls, and resolve.
“There is, it’s called family members”
And there’s the problem. We only have babys mamas and babys daddy anymore. There are very few families left in some sectors of society.
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