How many do you know that have no jobs since selection 2000?

QUESTION:

Do you know any of your family and/or neighbors or former
co-workers that are jobless, and/or
underemployed since Bush stole the White House ?

If YES, how many ?
include neighbors/friends in same metro area,
& siblings across country.


my answer:
three(3) Republican neighbors (2 over 6 months)
one(1) Liberal neighbor (4 months)
one(1) sibling (9 months; +hi-salary EE engineer)

plus 2 others neighbors that have other new jobs
at a little below salary of previous job)


yours ?

I don't know anyone in that condition, and I am very glad.

it has came very close for a few.

and 1 is me.

and my fiancee is woefully underemployed.

Customers, friends, friends of my parents and of my husband. But we live in Seattle, where unemployment is out of control, and a lot of these people once worked for Boeing...

For me, it was 2001. I will teach three or four courses at the community college this fall, but the pay is connected with our state budget, and I will probably make the wages of a high school student if you factor it by the hour. I'm 45 and have three degrees. Two of my children are in college.

This is even worse--much worse--than the horrible time when Poppy was in charge ten years ago.

My brother, who lives in the Portland area, has been unemployed almost since 2000. Luckily, my sister-in-law has a good job. They have no children.

I know a good number of people who are unemployed or drastically underemployed in order to try and pay their bills. I had some substantial savings. Those are almost gone. Now I just hope I can hang onto the house.

How long will it take us to get out of this, assuming that we dump the monkey next year? It's bleak out there, folks.

Me and my entire office at American Airlines, Las Vegas Reservations, only about 300+ of us.

...have lost at least one job. My wife and sister are still out of work and my brothers have found jobs that paid considerably less.

who searched a long time and are now very underemployeed.

..or keep track of.

I'd say 1/4 of my customers are unemployed, and another 1/4 underemployed. Most of my friends are doing alright.

One trend I have noticed is that when the economy went to hell, the people on top, in management positions seemed to have done pretty well. I have three friends in management who are making around $150k a year, and this due to recent pay raises and promotions. They all work for companies that are currently laying off many lower-level workers.

I am going to a place where education is actually valued.

-- 30+ (including me) were laid off 6 weeks ago and more to come there

-- my father was pushed into retirement (fortunately had enough time for full benefits)

-- 3 close friends who found very low wage jobs after being fired (one in telemarketing, so probably will be fired again)

-- my cousin and her husband in the tech industry already have to split their time between working in Texas and India. They're sure they will be gone soon


But hey, the economy is doing fine, right?!?

a few former coworkers who were downsized with me - IT related jobs. The programmers found new jobs within weeks, the marketing/web design/editorial folks like myself didn't. I've been without full-time employment almost 1 year, though I was able to find part-time freelance design work earlier this year. It's not much but I feel lucky to have any steady income right now.

Also, I don't know any of them personally but 700 were just let go from my fiancee's company, with more layoffs expected in 6 months.

A jobless "recovery" it is. Senator Sanders ripped into Alan Greenspan today suggesting that he get out and experience life for middle class Americans. I'm glad you can find some work and hope that you get full-time employment soon.

Alcuno, for your welcome and well wishes

:hi:

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

My husband and me.

He has been out of work since last Sept. I haven't worked since Nov.

There is light at the end of the tunnel he has a job offer that should start soon and I have a second interview Thurs for a job I really want.

I am, of course, furious at the mismanagement of the economy and everything else under the * regime.

My grandmother has three children: my father, my aunt, and my uncle. All three of them are currently unemployed. My father lost his construction job last December, my aunt lost her job at a middle school last summer, and my uncle has been unemployed since the beginning of last year.

My company recently dropped 300 workers, including many good friends of mine, and although I still have a job for now, I've been informed that I'll probably get the axe at the end of August or early September because they have to make more cuts.

In fact, if you look at my closest family and friends... I know more UNEMPLOYED people than EMPLOYED. Even my dad, who voted for Bush, blames Dubya for his unemployment and has no plans to vote for him again.

My last job was in the World Trade Center. During the lunch hour, musical groups would entertain in the plaza. About a month before the planes hit, I heard Herman's Hermits sing "Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter." The crowd loved it.

I've never been out of work any length of time. It's been difficult, but I get by. I get a disability check from the Veteran's Administration because of my exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam. I fix and sell computers as a sideline. My family has been helping out, too.

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine

ME! (unemployed)
...my mom (severely under-employed)
...my brother-in-law (under-employed)
...2 cousins (unemployed)
...1 uncle (small business went under)
...1 aunt (forced into early retirement)
...4 close friends (2 unemployed, 2 under-employed)
...current and future graduating classes of my university
...a handful of TX Dems (coming soon)

so that's... oh screw it! too many to count!