Your Unemployed Daughter

© The Discarded

Not sure what to do with that pile of business cards the company had printed for you a week before your layoff? Check out The Discarded.

Michelle and Mike, cofounders of the project (they’re also, sweetly, a couple) want to humanize the “6.7 million unemployed people” statistic. As a physical representation of that number, they’re collecting the defunct business cards of as many folks as possible, and will feature those cards, along with individual people’s unemployment tales, on their website.

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