Speaking from personal experience, I know what it’s like to be out of work.
But the one thing that gave me hope was the fact that if I did lose a job, through no fault of my own, I could claim my jobless benefits, which would give me a small cushion until I could find work again.
Contrary to what the GOP is saying about the unemployed being chronically lazy these days and not finding work, I can say with conviction that this isn’t what I was doing.
Just like unemployed workers in every state, I was out submitting resumes, filling out the weekly paperwork sent to me and keeping my hopes up that I would eventually find a job.
Sometimes it worked. Other times? I crashed and burned.
But that’s what happens when you are looking for steady employment. Nothing is set in stone.
However, I don’t like the idea of people playing politics with our lives because they don’t want to fund future benefits because of deficit “concerns.”
It’s wrong and it should stop. The jobless need hope, now more than ever, not more despair and misery.
Schuyler Thorpe
Everett
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