[rescue] looking for a Multia

[N.Miller]

On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 06:45 AM, Brian Dunbar wrote:

> Phil Stracchino [mailto:alaric at caerllewys.net] on Tuesday, August 12, 
> 2003
> 2:43 PM said;
>
>> the
>> next segment they were talking to someone who was saying they had a
>> survey that indicated "half to three quarters of a million" people had
>> just dropped off the jobless rolls because they'd given up even TRYING
>> to look for work, because they'd concluded there were simply no jobs 
>> out
>> there.
>
>> (I'll freely admit, I'm about this >< far from being one of them.)
>
> If you don't mind what may be a simple-minded question .. if you stop 
> trying to look for work, which implies that you won't be working ... 
> where does the food money come from?

Welfare rolls?  Food stamps, other types of assistance, section 8 
housing assistance?  A whole 'nother level of bureaucracy to deal with.

And, once your unemployment runs out (or you don't qualify for whatever 
reason, like me), you aren't counted in those numbers either.

=Nadine=