Category: unemployed

Reach Out

I was reading an opinion piece by a small business owner the other day, and afterwards I girded my loins and read the comments. I usually go out of my way to avoid reading comments, because life is too short to seek out haters, but I was feeling kinda feisty.  I found one comment in…
Read more


September 30, 2011 0

Listening to WNYC this am (I’m sure that some people instantly stopped reading after “WNYC”…ha!), and  Brian Lehrer covered the infuriating practice of employment ads making it clear that the unemployed will not be considered for positions. The host asked journalist Catherine Rampbell, who has been covering this story for the New York Times, if,…
Read more


August 1, 2011 0