unemployment

And the money is due to run out in September 2010, meaning the newly hired could soon be back in the unemployment line.

Inflation was stuck around 0.1-0.2% for all of 2013 (below target), while unemployment was around 7-8% (above target).

Well you also have the baby boom generation retiring so you would expect employment and unemployment to diverge.

They receive billions of $ subsidies annually to save those people from unemployment and potential social unrest.

And when you do go on unemployment, there's a guy who treats you with much suspicion handling your case.

So, is the city directly responsible for things like the unemployment rate and drop-out rate?

Then there are the short-term trends, such as the high levels of unemployment brought about by the Great Recession of 2008.

Well, the Canadian method involves the parent going on Unemployment for the duration of the leave, so it's not 100% salary.

> However, this means that guarantees of minimum wage and paid overtime, family and medical leave, and unemployment insurance are also non-existent.

Maybe it's obvious and should go without saying, but you should file for unemployment.

I had a house with a wife and son and if I quit I would not get unemployment and in St.

And then, after 6 months of unemployment, I had made myself employable again.

You won't get >4 weeks paid vacation in "most of eg Texas", or actually affordable healthcare, or paid maternity leave (let alone multiple month worth) and post-leave work-hour arrangements, or a "sacred lunchtime", or the ability to work flexible hours without being looked at like a loser (unless you're self-employed maybe ), or 80% salary unemployment, or the ability to live without owning a car.

Unemployment was officially inexistent, (you could go to jail if you had no job), therefore no welfare programs existed.