Keith Hudson wrote:
Interesting article on the long-term unemplopyed in America.
Keith Hudson
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THE NEW PROFILE OF THE LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED
Louis Uchitelle
[snip]
"There are just not new jobs being created in the things these people
did before," said Andrew Stettner, a policy analyst at the National
Employment Law Project and co-author of a study of long-term unemployment.
[snip]
Well, that's the difference between (1) both an oikos [a household] and
a polis [a community of peers], and (2) an "economy" [a structure for
exploitation of
human as well as natural resources]:
When either a family member or a member of a real community becomes
"useless", he or she is still supported nonetheless because of
the human [blood or collegial] ties among all the co-subjects of
their co-constituted lifeworld.
In an "economy", when a resource becomes useless it just
drops off the radar screen.
Probably somewhere in some country at least once in the
coming decade, one useless drop-off who in his or her
earlier years did something for someone whose fortunes
in the economy prospered will be discovered in the
gutter by the prosperous person and "saved" [Androcles and
the lion?]
Not many of them, however, I expect....
\brad mccormick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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