I imagine many of them are single parents with a kid or two... At roughly 100 a child per week (+/-) for child care, a Mickeys job would leave them paying out more than they could possibly bring in.
Add to that the people that live in rural areas where there are NO jobs, none coming anytime soon and they don't have the $$ to move etc, they're stuck.
Many are also the ones that SSI rejected for claims and they aren't aware that they CAN contest it with a lawyer, or no lawyers are available... (More than half of all claims have to resort to legal counsel which not only costs the government serious dollars to fight off (which they lose more often than not anyhow) and the lawyers end up with 33.3% of the clients balloon payment which can amount to tens of thousands of dollars)
The current job run is mostly the Public Workers who were laid off (in the thousands currently), they are grabbing anything they can get and usually have to take 2-3 jobs to even come close to their past salaries. They are trying to save their houses and lives.
Yet ol Dubya keeps crowing about the low unemployment rate (see: public workers are NOT included in those unemployment totals) and how fast the jobs are beinging created and filled.
D'oh! Yep and inflation is all set and ready to pop all over our b*tts. EVERY business is currently raising their rates-prices to cover the high fuel costs or they willl go broke.
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