Nearly 1 Out of 6 American Workers Now Not Working

Choire Sicha
The Awl
Published in
1 min readSep 4, 2009
LET'S ROLL

What is possibly to say? Shit is so broken. The official jobless rate is now 9.7%, which means it is conservatively 17%. Coupled with the massive surge in stock market profit-taking income among the wealthy over the last eight months, this country is being more, not less, divided into rich and poor during this “oh it’s almost over yeah right” bullshit recession. I hate to get all Worker’s Weekly on you, but this is disastrous, and I am not sure we will ever recover without, you know, pitchforks and torches and the seizing of the property of the entrenched inbred rich.

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