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[Kathyann Natkie <knat AT sprintmail.com>]

> Rounding it off upwards - about 35,000 hungry people
> in a few months over and above all the others that
> were terminated for one reason or another since the
> beginning of *this* year ... In one place, 35,000 people
> is a good-sized city.
> 
> but lest we just focus on one side of this, the un-employment rate is 5.4
> percent, lower than the average unemployment rate of the 70's, 80's, or 
> 90's.
> 
> Drew
> 
As one who has had to adjust from a low-normal executive wage to
minimum, employed/unemployed figures don't tell the picture. If we
didn't have my "hobbies" which are edible we would be homeless in an
area with rents bottoming at $875 wo heat and norming at $1750 w yard
(also w/o heat.) The translation is making less a day than previously
made an hour but working full tilt w/o time for maintaining homestead
('twas not a good time for a fixer-upper.)

Kathyann