HAPPY HOLIDAYS

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL

I'LL BE BACK IN JANUARY

TAKING A MONTH OFF FOR THE HOLIDAYS

Graphics courtesy of the Library of Congress

LOST JOBS

MEN IN LINE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS -- 1938

DORTHEA LANGE -- PHOTOGRAPHER

Unemployment benefits aid begins. Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. They will receive from six to fifteen dollars per week for up to sixteen weeks. Coincidental with the announcement that the federal unemployment census showed close to ten million persons out of work, twenty-two states begin paying unemployment compensation. -- Library of Congress

Unemployment figures

2009 -- 2011
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

How will we ever recover when U.S.companies

are giving jobs, that were once located here, to other countries?


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