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LABOUR DAY

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

SCOTT SIMON, host, NPR:On this Labor Day weekend, we might give some thought to what it's like to be without a job.About one in every 10 Americans - 15 million, the population of New York, Los Angeles and Chicago combined - doesn't have a job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics say there are there million more who have just stopped looking for jobs after a year because they can't find one.Having no job does not mean having no work. Your children must still be fed, bathed, and ferried to school, which is a lot of hard work. But you have less money for food, gas, and the new shoes your children need for school.It means that if you have a toothache, you might pretend it will go away, until it becomes a sharp pain. Then you have to see a dentist, but may not be able to buy a new winter coat...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 06, 2010 (boomark / email).