The trauma of unemployment

The trauma of unemployment

by digby

This is an interesting post about a new study tracking the attitudes of people who have lost jobs in the Great Recession. You can click the link to get to the original data, but it's distilled nicely here, where the authors have divided the results into several different categories:


Check out the numbers:








This entire society is going to be reeling from that for a long time to come. All that lost value, hope and ambition aren't going to just automatically return. People's lives are permanently changed by this sort of cataclysm, they don't see the world the same way anymore. Risk, in particular, has a very different character to people who've been down and out.










And a lot of people who never expected it have been down and out for a long time now:















No wonder they feel totally wrecked.

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