JAHI CHIKWENDIU/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES
Enter
LOOKING
FORWARD
IN ANGST
JASON
LINKINS
HUFFINGTON
01.12.14
NEW YEAR, OLD
UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS
ELCOME TO A NEW
YEAR everyone! How
do you like the look of
2014 so far? Well, if
you are like me, you’re worried.
It’s not the sort of thing that got
talked about on the Sunday shows,
because the producers of those
shows don’t actually like ordinary
people, but on Dec. 28, 1.3 million
W
Americans who had been left clinging to their unemployment insurance as a lifeline during the unemployment crisis lost that lifeline,
and have taken an incremental step
closer to a 2014 of possibly freezing
or starving to death. This is, as The
Economist points out, the “darker
shadow” of this crisis — the world
of the long-term unemployed.
It’s a story that resonates with
me, because not long ago, I was
unemployed for an extended pe-
Thousands
of applicants
attend a job
fair hosted
by Tanger
Outlets for
its November
opening on
Sept. 17,
2013, in Fort
Washington,
Md.