In a recent blog on the shame of unemployment I suggested that a lot of people feel a sense of shame about losing their job. One reader commented that sometimes you lose your job because you are not doing your job. I doubt that this accounts for the doubling of unemployment in the last three years, but it's a point worth considering. Sometimes people lose their job for good reasons---and it's rea
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July 10, 2010
July 2, 2010
The Shame of Unemployment
The latest New York Times headline gives us good news and bad news. The good news is that the unemployment rate has dropped to 9.5% and the bad news is that 125,000 jobs were lost this past month. In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal 26 % of those currently working had some period of unemployment during the past 30 months. Still, many people who are unemployed feel a sense of shame. "I
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