In a message dated 10/7/2004 5:36:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tonihawr AT msn.com writes:
14,000 *wage-earners* may equate to ?how many?
spouses and children ? about another 20,000 or more ?
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.