Blog: CONSILIENCE PRODUCTIONS

The New Poor: "There are no bad jobs now. Any job is a good job."

The Great Recession continues, with the number of those unemployed over six months soaring to a record. This powerful story ran in this past Sunday's NY Times: 6.3 million Americans have been unemployed for six months or longer , the largest number since the government began keeping track in 1948. That is more than double the toll in the next-worst period, in the early 1980s. The article continues in stark detail, portraying what so many Americans are going through today. First there's Ms. Eisen: Here in Southern California, [...]