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KGkarengregory.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/society/2024... "While unemployment has increased only slightly since the onset of high inflation and the cost of living crisis in 2021, the number of people suffering mental and physical health issues has soared."

Number of people in UK out of work due to ill health growing by 300,000 a year
Number of people in UK out of work due to ill health growing by 300,000 a year

Data dashes hopes that effects of pandemic would subside and labour market would return to pre-Covid state

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HSmikrokosmos.bsky.social

Literally thinking of offing myself because all of my Unemployment was denied and nobody wants to donate to me. I’m going to fucking do it because nobody fucking cares. I’ve done nothing wrong to deserve this treatment.

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Yeah and whilst they're overfilling the prisons, standing room only shit. People are dying and missing work and getting fired. And then the US systems of unemployment and private health care will finish the job. The impoverishment of people will be far more deadly if not as dramatic.

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Mmavveth.bsky.social

bought some stuff for my car. i need a new fin but i’m gonna wait til next week’s unemployment payment before i get it, i think.

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JFhardhatjac.bsky.social

That really is the secret, eh? I might lead (technically "led" now) an active job, but my diet is still pretty awful. I really need to get back to practicing my own cooking with my newfound unemployment free time. 🙂‍↕️

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TQtracyquannyc.bsky.social

Workers do not receive strike pay, though after two weeks NY and New Jersey workers can receive state unemployment compensation...when a reporter asked Joe Biden on Sunday if he would intervene, the president said no… “I don’t believe in Taft-Hartley.” labornotes.org/2024/10/ship...

Ships Pile Up as Longshore Strike Hits East Coast Ports
Ships Pile Up as Longshore Strike Hits East Coast Ports

Longshore workers walked off the job at midnight at Atlantic and Gulf ports from Boston to Houston. This is the first coastwide strike since 1977 for the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA)...

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KCkatiecannon.bsky.social

Adam Smith, classical liberal: Land is essentially public in nature. It belongs to everyone. Government intervention and laws create private property rights & mass unemployment. Libertarians: Land is just naturally private & labor just needs to find cheaper landlords

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