- NPR is laying off 64, including Ketzel Levine. I have had mixed thoughts about her “American Moxie” series, but I do hope they let her finish it. She is a good reporter.
- Gannett laid off ten percent of its people earlier this month, including (quite rudely) syndicated political cartoonist Brian Duffy in Des Moines and our own local cartoonist Bob Patton.
- A coworker—who, incidentally, also went to camp just a few years before I—told me her husband, a nuclear lab technician, has been laid off to half-time. He is currently on the market.
- Finally, K, who quit her half-time go-nowhere nonprofit job in September, has seen few good prospects. Few are advertising; fewer still are hiring. You know how they talk about people who unemployed but not on the roles, not counted in the national statistics? K is one of those people.
What is there to do in a time like this but pray things don’t get worse?
Ha! The only thing worse than being a statistic is being a non-statistic!
by kl—Dec 11, 11:13 AM
As least when you’re the former you can be a rebuke to the Bush administration.
by JH—Dec 11, 12:56 PM
Let us now praise famous men
or
Blue Highways
by jeremy—Dec 11, 04:46 PM
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is tripped out. It was also fully subsidized by the U.S. government.
by greg—Dec 11, 04:48 PM
hey you can always hope in obama… i mean the boy is still asking for all kinds of money…
by jeremy—Dec 11, 04:53 PM
..the boy..
Racist.
by JH—Dec 11, 08:55 PM
I spend a fair amount of time these days being glad I landed in Wyoming, land of the “recession? what recession?” energy industry boom, which, while devastating in a variety of ways, does pretty well insure my job.
The irony that I’m employed now and was one of those uncounted unemployed people for much of the late ’90s boom amuses me, but the current situation is not amusing at all.
by laura—Dec 11, 09:27 PM
At least I’m not on the MLA job market:
by greg—Dec 18, 01:03 PM