News & Politics - Trying to Make Ends Meet: Job Loss in America

djgreetings · 05-23-2009, 10:36 AM

Trying to Make Ends Meet: Job Loss in America

One in six manufacturing jobs in the United States have been lost in the past seven years. Manufacturing towns in the Midwest have been hit hard as more and more factories close and jobs are sent overseas. Ohio's job loss numbers are the worst since the Great Depression. Residents of Ohio give their personal accounts of being laid off from a factory they have worked all their life in.

Do you feel the effect of the Recession?
How is it affecting you?
What advice can you give to those feeling the pain of recession?

**Callace** · 05-23-2009, 10:53 AM

that sounds really bad

So sorry for everyone who gets taken by this

**wanderer78** · 05-24-2009, 12:44 AM

I'm starting to feel the effects of the recession a bit. But compared to a lot of people, I'm pretty lucky.

**vc318** · 05-25-2009, 05:52 PM

I think the job loss thing is happening worldwide. It's pretty bad.

**sunnykerr** · 05-25-2009, 07:59 PM

It is happening worldwide. The U.S. has a presence everywhere, in every industry. A major presence. You guys can't sneeze without the rest of us catching a cold.

**wanderer78** · 05-25-2009, 11:45 PM

Yes, one of my former managers is from Germany. When the economy was starting to go bad, she rushed back before her Visa expired b/c the US economy was affecting the German one.

**Callace** · 05-26-2009, 02:19 AM

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It is happening worldwide. The U.S. has a presence everywhere, in every industry. A major presence. You guys can't sneeze without the rest of us catching a cold.

that's sort of true

Where are you from?

Here in Norway it hasnt really been noticed that much. I have seen some somall things, but nothing that really qualifies as a crisis. Although i suppose I will get a better feel of how thigs are now that I have graduated university, and is about to start looking for jobs

**vc318** · 05-26-2009, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Callace (View Post)

Here in Norway it hasnt really been noticed that much. I have seen some somall things, but nothing that really qualifies as a crisis. Although i suppose I will get a better feel of how thigs are now that I have graduated university, and is about to start looking for jobs

Wow, you're pretty lucky.

I get annoyed by how much the news lies though. One minute they say the housing and economic slump is getting better then the next week they're saying something else. Just setting up false hope, in my opinion. I see this mess going on at least until the end of this year, unfortunately.

**sunnykerr** · 05-27-2009, 07:04 PM

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that's sort of true

Where are you from?

I'm Canadian. It's an odd marriage.

Our economic policy is, in theory, independent. In reality, though, there's a lot of mesh. It makes sense and, yet, it can be frustrating.

**Callace** · 05-28-2009, 01:48 PM

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Wow, you're pretty lucky.

I hope so.

But you'll never know, As a student you dont really notice such things. I take it I wont get a real feel of the situation untill now, when I am about to join the unemployment quelue

I am really proud of my country in times like these though, for not getting as deep down as many others

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I get annoyed by how much the news lies though. One minute they say the housing and economic slump is getting better then the next week they're saying something else. Just setting up false hope, in my opinion. I see this mess going on at least until the end of this year, unfortunately.

Really? And I who thought every newschannel loved a good apocalypse

But I take it they got to call it off a few times just to get the pleasure of annoucing it again

**sunnykerr** · 05-28-2009, 06:36 PM

I think the problem is that news organizations, for the most part, have gotten under the habit of not questioning the information they receive. Because questioning it is seen as editorializing, and that's not what news reporting is about.

So, you hear enough experts say that things are turning around, well that's what you say that night on the six o'clock news. By the next day, you've heard from all the experts who think those first guys are full of crap. So that's what you report that night.

So, for the most part, I don't think it's out-and-out lying. I just think times are really confusing and news reporters are reporting the opinion of people who are supposed to be experts (which they, the news reporters are demonstrably not since it is not their area of expertise), and that just adds to the confusion.

**Callace** · 05-29-2009, 03:02 AM

that's a good point. But after having gone a few rounds like that they should begin to know who has which opinions, so that they can get both views at the same time. There is after all also a journalistic ideal of balanced news-reporting?

**sunnykerr** · 05-29-2009, 07:36 PM

But that's how they see balanced: they don't impose their own perspective on it. That's also why they can't report on, say, one side of the abortion question without mentioning the other. So it's impossible for any of them to say that abortion is a necessary right...

Also, knowing who has what opinion doesn't matter, because it's not like it's the same thing all the time.

**Callace** · 05-30-2009, 03:00 AM

No, but one can be a bit careful about going to the ones that has the most drastic interpretation of it all the time.

**sunnykerr** · 06-01-2009, 05:38 PM

Exactly.

So that's why you can't really wait for the news to tell you what to think. You have to see what's out there and make up your own mind.