Jobless? Reach for New Unemployment Lifeline
Most of us know a friend or a family member who has lost his or her job. Many of us fear we will be next. After all, with more than 600,00 jobs a month vanishing, official unemployment now stands at 8.5 percent. And with as much as 15.6 percent of the adult workforce either jobless, underemployed or part of a group that has just plain given up looking for work, that fear is more than justified.
If you were to join the more than 13 million workers without jobs today, do you know where you would turn for help?
The just-launched Unemployment LifeLine, developed by Working America and the AFL-CIO, can guide you to resources and services in your area to help working families cope and survive unemployment.
