In Case You Didn’t Know
Posted on Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 11:02 am
You know how when you were little, and you told your mom you felt bad, and she thought you were just faking to get out of going to school but she took you to the doctor and it turned out you had a strep throat, or pneumonia, or swine flu?
That’s kind of how this recent NYT report makes me feel. Vindicated. Sorry for self. In need of antibiotics.
“The city’s unemployment rate jumped to 9 percent in May, its highest level in more than a decade, according to data released on Thursday by the state’s Labor Department. The figures showed that there were about 361,000 unemployed people in the city, more than at any time during the recession that surrounded the Sept. 11 terrorist attack and the largest number of city residents out of work since 1993.
In the private work force, the weakness in May was concentrated in the fields of communications media, advertising and other information services, as well as in finance and education, according to James Brown, an analyst with the state’s Labor Department.”
The good news? I’m not faking it! And there are 360,999 others to hang out with who can’t find jobs. In fact, my plans tonight involve a happy hour at the Tribeca home of someone who was laid off just yesterday, as well as, if K insists, a free Better Than Ezra concert.
How unemployment of us.
[...] hate to be the one to tell you this, but there are 361,000-plus of us already looking for work in NYC. You have no appreciable talents, aside from cultivating hair, ridin’ hogs, cookin’ slow [...]
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