A desert for jobs and no end in sight

[tonysam]

IF JOBLESS workers have to make a second visit to the unemployment office on Chicago's West Lawrence Avenue, an already big problem must be getting worse.

With the unemployment system mostly automated, most laid-off workers simply show up once to file, then update their status online or by telephone. So even though Illinois' jobless rate is 10 percent--the 14th highest among states--even late on a rainy Friday afternoon in October, the number of people in the office wasn't big. But their problems were.

The workers at the center--formally known as the Illinois Department of Employment Security (IDES)--are unfailingly polite, if a bit harried. "You have to wait until Obama extends the unemployment benefits," one told a client for the third--or maybe the fourth--time. But the claimant, an African American woman in her mid-thirties, lingered at the counter a moment further, in hope of some solution to the looming expiration of her benefits.

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[Hannah Bell]

1. we can all become sex workers & drug dealers.

[tonysam]

2. It's "freedom of choice" after all n/t

[villager]

3. or, hell, just those good ol' "market forces!"

n/t

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. yup, and if you disagree that either are nobel careers

you are a puritan fascist!

[Lerkfish]

6. if you ever saw me naked, you'd know that won't work

:)

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

7. If you're volunteering, I say go for it. n/t

[opihimoimoi]

4. Answers are on the way....gimme 3 weeks....jobs jobs and more jobs...

The dollar flow rate has gone down with corresponding effects.

Solutions call for innovative ways to form new industries with in house customers....thats us consumers...

Opi is about to help Obama get his act together in a more meaningful productive way...

trust me

[Horse with no Name]

8. It sure made a difference when they outsourced all of those

state unemployment offices.
Staff and services were the first to go.
I bet you couldn't find ANYONE to help you build a resume or mount a decent job search in ANY of these unemployment call-centers.