Unemployment causing major life changes, mental health issues for millions
More than half of the nation’s unemployed workers have borrowed money from friends or relatives since losing their jobs. An equal number have cut back on doctor visits or medical treatments because they are out of work.
Almost half have suffered from depression or anxiety . About 4 in 10 parents have noticed behavioral changes in their children that they attribute to their difficulties in finding work.
Joblessness has wreaked financial and emotional havoc on the lives of many of those out of work, according to a New York Times/CBS News poll of unemployed adults, causing major life changes, mental health issues and trouble maintaining even basic necessities.
The results of the poll, which surveyed 708 unemployed adults from Dec. 5 to Dec. 10 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points, help to lay bare the depth of the trauma experienced by millions across the country who are out of work as the jobless rate hovers at 10 percent and, in particular, as the ranks of the long-term unemployed soar.
Roughly half of the respondents described the recession as a hardship that had caused fundamental changes in their lives. Generally, those who have been out of work longer reported experiencing more acute financial and emotional effects.
“I lost my job in March, and from there on, everything went downhill,” said Vicky Newton, 38, of Mount Pleasant, Mich., a single mother who had been a customer-service representative in an insurance agency.
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I know that on this blog some posters tend to be sarcastic about this and that. I would like to table that for a moment and express my deep concern for those who have lost their jobs, and how terrible it is for them, the entire year, as well as here at Christmas season.
ReplyDeleteWhatever reason you want to list for the economic meltdown, be it wallstreet elite, government, greedy lenders, builders or borrowers, no matter how that fleshes out in the long run, people of the US are going to be hurting badly because of it. Maybe in the future we can come to our senses, and return to a trend of living a reasonable lifestyle. Maybe we can foster small business growth, maybe we can see ourselves for what we are, and grasp a true sense of reality. Again I wish to break on this blog from the norm, if I may, and extend my best wishes to all in these troubled times.
According to some financial newsletters the unemployment is 22%. People need to retrain in the trades, medical field, as these jobs are in demand in the S.E. and elsewhere, In the 80's when many clothing and textile factories left, these people would retrain and are now working. Some I know are working overseas with contractors. Some have started businesses.
ReplyDelete9:19 I agree with you 100%. I sympathise with people who lost their job and I can concur that being jobless does take an emotional toll on people. I experienced it first hand.
ReplyDeleteI think most of the people who read this blog could use watching this whole movie, release in novemeber.
ReplyDeleteHere's the whole thing:
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http://filmikz.net/media.php?id=3903
It's funny because I almost think it's like Laura is sitting there like completely unaware that trains 1 mile long are shipping 1000's of military vehicles and tanks into California as we speak.
ReplyDeleteWOLVERINES!
ReplyDeleteIt's RED DAWN all over again!
Head to the hills with your all in one survival knife and Tyco Rambo do it yourself survival kit.
Laura ... Although I agree a skill and trade are good - what good are they when your dollar is toilet paper.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should get retraining to be a guard at a detention camp or in the Government Martial Law Police Force. Previous post indicates job potential in California.
I AGREE WITH 12:25. CLICK HERE http://www.sss.gov/ AND PICK CAREERS. THIS WILL GARANTEE THAT YOUR SON OR BROTHER WILL BE FIGHTING IN WW3.
ReplyDeleteTo 11:19: I heard similar stories about troups, trains, etc in the early 90's in La., Tx, before I had internet, on: for the people radio out of white spr, Fla. and a Col Mohr from Mich (now dec) talk show on short wave radio. If this is currently true, what are these guys now doing? and when are they going to round up the sheeple; do they have an agenda of some sort? I saw the video clip on the Calif troup movements last week..these troups are probably doing some low end manual/janitorial labor on mil. bases waiting to go to the middle east. Several years ago, I heard about foreign troups in La., and other areas/closed bases. Older patriots I communicate with don't know who to trust for info anymore.
ReplyDeleteThese goofballs are being unreasonably critical towards you, to say the least. Learning a skill makes you a moron? Since when? Dont you think it just MIGHT come in handy just when the dollar is not worth anything and you have to barter and or help out your fellow neighbor and vice versa? Community is the answer, not holing yourself up in a dungeon til you are eating your last bean. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteTo 1:31:Yes, those that criticize learning a skill are low life slackers/morons who want welfare handouts and probably have kids they can't afford to raise properly and send them to trade school or college later on.They are full time losers; they need to move to China and work on assembly lines 14 hrs a day. Perhaps some of these losers are selling drugs or ripping off whoever.
ReplyDeleteMy skills are survival in the forest for weeks without human contact, sniping the eye out of a bluejay from 333 yards with a .308, one shot one kill, improvising hydrogen bombs out of stuff you find under the sink, turning a flashlight and a length of lamp cord into a stun gun, focusing my chi energy into my finger tip and killing from a distance with the power of my mind, invisibility, materializing objects from thin air, including loaves of bread, walking on water, walking through walls, hearing whispers from many miles away, detecting human heartbeats from miles away, sucking the life force from my victims and incorporating it into my ephemeral body, reworking time to direct my enemies into traps, and creating pure love out of thin air.
ReplyDeleteLaura, if I throw a bone will you go away?
ReplyDeleteWelfare handouts--Food Stamps---Government managed housing, (you pay 30% of your adjusted gross income, of which 30% of nothing is nothing, and you are then a "Zero Income Tenant" and on top of that is a utility allowance paid the "zero income tenant", which means the Apartment Management company is mailing a check to the "zero income tenant" just for living there.)
ReplyDeleteRef above: Sect 515 properties/HUD/Rural Development.
The housing programs were designed for 1. Family properties with qualifications not to exceed 50% of the local median income, and 2. Elderly/Disabled properties, age 62, or anyone drawing any SSI. You fill out an application, fess up all your income from any and all sources, and that is worksheet figured, and then the DEDUCTIONS come off, medical, insurance, etc.
This post is getting to be TMI (too much information) so I will stop here. I am sure no one is interested in the "nuts and bolts" of Government Subsidized Housing.
3:46 I am impressed. It sounds to me like you are dabbling a little bit in the dark arts. Tell me, are you a member of the illuminati? Only the 12 members of the illuminati, it is said, can materialize objects out of thin air, they and bigfoot. I have met big foot only 4 times in my life. The last time I was knocked unconscious by the scent of his urine which is also a powerful aphrodisiac to humans. I awoke in Tahiti with a hickey on my neck and my heart still aches for his presence. He is the greatest lover ever to exist on the planet.
ReplyDelete5:01 dark arts? Bigfoot? I think you are on the wrong post. Try Coast to Coast. With the other nuts...........
ReplyDeleteBut I feel so at home with you and the others :))))))
ReplyDeleteAt my age, I will never recover from this shit. I have always lived a simple life. I purchased 2 new cars in nearly 40 years of driving, all the others were purchased for less than $1K each. When I could no longer repair them, I trashed it and found another.
ReplyDeleteI have never been to a "fancy restaurant".
I have never had a "real" vacation.
I would love to visit Rome and Poland. It will never happen.
At this point, I expect nothing less than pain, frustration and conflict in the near future. All I know it's not gonna be very fun.
Google "Bonus Army"
This is a story about starving WWI vets and their families. They were promised up to $1.50 for every day they served in the battlefield. Long story short... they marched to DC to ask for their money. They built a tent city to wait for their money. The president said "fuck them" and a young Major G.S. Patton attacked the vets and their families. It ended when Patton put all the vets and their families onto cattle cars and transported them to a Florida swamp. He ordered them into the swamp and then machine gunned them all; women, children, WWI, unarmed vets.
I won't let this happen again. Not on my watch.
ok 5:22 I have had my fun. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas. In the end we have to stick up for each other. God bless have a good night
ReplyDelete5:22 and 5:01 here. I am writing to say that the government is terrorism. If there ever existed a truly free society the terrorists would come and destroy it, take their land, and call it a democracy (once they get the appropriate leaders installed). I love my country, home of the free, land of the brave, because I am a brainwashed mindless slave. hip hip hooray!
ReplyDelete5:22 Sorry you are so wrong. It was not Patton who did what you said. It was Macarthur
ReplyDeleteThere is something about this blog that will not allow me to copy and paste a citation. I hope I get this correct
ReplyDeletehttp://oathkeepers.ning.com/group/iowa/form/a-bit-of-history-you-probably
The narrative about Patton is there.
5:22?? How dare you confuse me with 5:23! Ok 5:35, Happy holidays to you...
ReplyDelete6:01 here...
ReplyDeleteThe US Government's policy says it all: land for war. Those who fought for the terrorist cause of war for the coutnry were awarded land (stolen from the indians after they were terroristically slaughtered, of course). And business has been good every since...
By the following morning some 2,400 people were herded into cattle cars and were taken down to the Florida Everglades. There they were separated into small groups of 50’s. The women and children were lined up first as the Veterans were lined up along the tracks behind a machine gun that Patton had ordered to be set up on the tracks pointing out over the glades.
ReplyDeletePatton gave a speech about patriotism calling them all traitors as the first group of women and children were forced to wade out into the swamp and to stand in front of a machine gun. He continued his speech until the last of the women and children in the first group had entered the swamp and were lined up in front of the machine gun. Then Major Patton gave the order to fire and the first group fell lifeless into the swamp. Then the next group of women and children were marched out into the swamp where they too were gunned down by the machine gun. This continued one group at a time while the Veterans were forced to watch as their wives and children were executed by the soldiers.
When the last group of women and children had been executed the Veterans began singing patriotic songs as they marched out into the swamp. Tripping over the lifeless bodies of their loved one which were floating in the water, they continued singing until the last Veteran’s lifeless body splashed into the mixture of blood, mud, and swamp water. It is said that the gators ate very well that day as the soldiers tore up the tracks and left the area.
Part of the attack against the bonus army activists/campers was due to the governments foolish fear of communism. They had partly attributed their protest to a rise in communism, which of course was an empty boogeyman used to scare people into patriotic support, something which still lasts today.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap. I was never aware of that story. Thank you very much for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteI knew about what we did to 100k+ women and children after WWIII in Germany. I knew what we did to 100k+ Iraqi troops AFTER they surrendered in '90 as they retreated from Kuwait.
Your story is more hard hitting because it shows what our own government is willing to do to its own people. Very sad. What is even sadder is that they murderers are regarded by history as great heros and leaders. Just like today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWvCCxOUsM8
ReplyDeleteVideo on the Bonus Army
Makes you wonder how anyone would ever be so foolish to enlist. It has never stopped. Look at depleted uranium, gulf war syndrome, etc.
ReplyDeleteWe ask our military men to go out and murder then turn around and piss on them.
Share all this stories with anyone you know that might be thinking about signing up to fight for our Empire. Let them know the 'fighting for freedoms' crap is just that, crap.
Yes, it is an empty ideal steeped in blood.
ReplyDeleteThe story makes me sad and sick at the same time. I guess we were no better than hitler's germany and stalin's russia in many ways. I mean put aside all the other country's populations we have murdered, look at our own. In addition to this you have the nuclear testing on our own military men. Also germ testing on innocent populations. That's what your leaders do when you give them power over you. If they can get away with anything they will do anything.