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Update: Announcing the F**ked Sneak Preview Webcast – See Details BelowWhat happens when your 99 weeks of unemployment benefits expire and you still haven’t been able to find a job? Academy Award...
View ArticleThe real story of America’s unemployed
Before “We are the 99 percent” emerged as a rally cry from Zuccotti Park to the Port of Oakland, another group identified with this number -- but for a very different reason. A handful of New Yorkers...
View ArticleThe GOP’s unemployment trap
The unemployment rate is gradually trending down. That's the good news. The bad news is that by any civilized standard, the current state of the labor market in the United States is an ongoing...
View ArticleThe shame and pride of joining food stamp nation
"Mister Cook! Chris Cook? Mr. Cook! Window three!"I walk through the pasty government-issue fluorescent light and bureaucratic cinderblock waiting room, ushered into the inner sanctum of welfare...
View ArticleF**ked: Fighting the stigma of joblessness
Tens of millions of Americans are involuntarily jobless, but being unemployed still carries a stigma.“Many people hadn’t told their families or friends, because they were ashamed,” explains Sam Talbot,...
View ArticleWhen my retirement plan exploded
I was one of the lucky ones. A childhood friend loved to point that out to me, especially if I started to sound like I was complaining about my high-paying job. She worked just as hard as I did. She...
View ArticleWhen I learned to scrape by
Three dollars in the gas tank, 49-cent burrito, a paper cup of water from the bathroom sink; I sit on the curb, eating my breakfast and listening to Javier sing. Every so often a car pulls up; Javier...
View ArticleIs work worth it?
Certain experiences will always force a reevaluation of life’s priorities. The birth of a child, a near-death experience -- or getting fired. The latest episode of Salon’s video series on unemployment...
View ArticleWhen my job stopped paying
It comes up all the time in conversation. Most recently, I heard it from a stranger at the dentist’s office, talking back to the television news and those of us fortunate enough to be stuck in the...
View ArticleOccupy meet MacArthur’s tanks
When Occupy Wall Street burst on the scene last September, the movement seemed unique and unprecedented. The latest installment of “F**ked: The United States of Unemployment,” however, traces the long...
View ArticleThe 99ers’ unemployment fix
For our 99ers, an informal group of jobless New Yorkers who have exhausted their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, the Occupy Wall Street movement came as a dream fulfilled.As the protests took root...
View ArticleCan Occupy Wall Street work with the jobless?
In the sixth installment of F**ked, the long-term unemployed meet the occupiers at a General Assembly in New York City, never expecting the generational and culture clash that ensues. Continue Reading...
View ArticleThe screwed generation: Libertarian, not liberal
There is an old adage that says, "If you're young and conservative you have no heart, if you're old and liberal you have no brain." The idea is that young people tend to make decisions more on...
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The real story of America’s unemployed
Before “We are the 99 percent” emerged as a rally cry from Zuccotti Park to the Port of Oakland, another group identified with this number -- but for a very different reason. A handful of New Yorkers...
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The GOP’s unemployment trap
AP/Eric Risberg This story is part of our new series on long-term unemployment in America, which aims to keep jobs a primary topic during this presidential election year. To watch part one of our new...
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The shame and pride of joining food stamp nation
AP "Mister Cook! Chris Cook? Mr. Cook! Window three!"I walk through the pasty government-issue fluorescent light and bureaucratic cinderblock waiting room, ushered into the inner sanctum of welfare...
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F**ked: Fighting the stigma of joblessness
Tens of millions of Americans are involuntarily jobless, but being unemployed still carries a stigma.“Many people hadn’t told their families or friends, because they were ashamed,” explains Sam...
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When my retirement plan exploded
AP A longer version of this piece originally appeared on Lezlie Bishop’s Open Salon blog. Do you have a story about being unemployed during the Great Recession? Blog about it on Open Salon — and we...
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When I learned to scrape by
A longer version of this piece originally appeared on Tiffany Brubeck’s Open Salon blog. Do you have a story about being unemployed during the Great Recession? Blog about it on Open Salon — and we...
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The screwed generation: Libertarian, not liberal
Reuters/Joel Page There is an old adage that says, "If you're young and conservative you have no heart, if you're old and liberal you have no brain." The idea is that young people tend to make...
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