What today's unemployment rate means...

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ysabetwordsmith  has a really interesting post about how the high unemployment rate has not reduced stigma on being unemployed, meaning that a large percentage of the population is "expected to have a job and blamed if they do not." Go check it out!

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What, that's not me AT ALL. Nope.

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Not just blame, but putting my own guilt on myself.

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EXACTLY. You know what I'm talking about! Ugh, but then if there wasn't all this shame/blame maybe people would just stop looking for work and build hippie cooperative farms?