Welcome to the realities of long-term unemployment
Back in June, The Lookout put out the call for readers who had been unemployed for six months or longer to write in with their stories. We received over a thousand emails and around 5,000 comments. Zack’s got a write up of the picture we got of the long-term unemployment crisis after going through 6,000 submissions, and we built out this Tumblr to house 50 of the most vivid stories.
Here are a couple of stories that have really stuck with us:
‘You’re thinking, what did the successful candidate have that I didn’t have?’
‘Somehow, week after week, our kids stayed fed and relatively happy’
‘It’s hard to be poor for a short term, but long term, it is heartbreaking’
In any case, please take a look and let us know what you think.
—Zack & Phoebe
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