untonuggan: Two African American men gazing at a sign reading "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" (bayard rustin)
lizcommotion ([personal profile] untonuggan) wrote2013-01-11 10:33 am
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What today's unemployment rate means...

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith  has a really interesting post about how the high unemployment rate has not reduced stigma on being unemployed, meaning that a large percentage of the population is "expected to have a job and blamed if they do not." Go check it out!
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syntaxofthings: Death Fae from the Fey Tarot (Default)

[personal profile] syntaxofthings 2013-01-11 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
What, that's not me AT ALL. Nope.

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Not just blame, but putting my own guilt on myself.
untonuggan: Lily and Chance squished in a cat pile-up on top of a cat tree (buff tabby, black cat with red collar) (Default)

[personal profile] untonuggan 2013-01-12 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
EXACTLY. You know what I'm talking about! Ugh, but then if there wasn't all this shame/blame maybe people would just stop looking for work and build hippie cooperative farms?
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