The piece has the usual horseshit arguments made by liars in the GOP and blue dogs about the "deficit" and that we unemployed are a bunch of lazy shits who are "gaming" the system by waiting until our benefits are about to run out before looking for work.
Well, even AmeriCorps "jobs," which are paid volunteer jobs, have scads of applicants. I applied for several last year in Nevada and in Oregon and received interviews, but this year I haven't even been called in for a single interview. Evidently a lot of new college grads or UI exhaustees have been going that route when all else fails.
Anyway here is a snip from the article of somebody who is near the end of her rope:
Ms. Sadler estimates that she used to spend six hours a day searching for work; now it is at least double that amount of time.
“There’s been times I’ve had to make myself stop looking for jobs because it was driving me nuts,” said Ms. Sadler, who admitted that she had contemplated suicide.
Every day has become a tense scramble, highlighting just how thin the governmental safety net for the jobless becomes beyond unemployment benefits. After Ms. Sadler was cut off from jobless benefits, she qualified for $200 a month in food stamps, but food stamps do not pay her bills, nor do they cover other necessities.
And did she try to retrain for a new "career"? Yes, she did, BUT:
Before she lost her job, she had enrolled in community college to study medical billing and coding. She finished the program in May, but most of the medical billing jobs she has applied for require experience. The framed certificate, and another one for data entry, on her bedroom wall are just decorations at this point.
Just like my two college degrees, now since I doubt I will ever be able to teach again (at least in public schools) thanks to that asshole principal from WCSD.
Now I have heard some rumors that there might be some fast tracking of a Tier V or additional weeks once the deadline "extensions" are passed, and I hope to hell it's true.
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