Map of Long Term Unemployment

Forbes magazine and the Pew Charitable Trust published these long term unemployment number for the over 50 set.  The middle blue numbers are the % of long term unemployed.  3.5% seen in the red states on the west coast to a love of 1.5% in the west north central and west south central states.

While these numbers are a few months old, the long term unemployed who have fallen off the grid have just fallen between the cracks farther yet! If we delve into this labor report deeper, prospects for the long-term unemployed (those jobless for six months or longer) didn't improve. The long-term unemployment rate was little changed at 5.5 million workers who account for 42.9% of the unemployed. These are very scary numbers!

So Obama, Romney, where are your answers to these tough questions? How will you pull the economy up and out, and get it moving again?  So far neither candidate (or party) has given me any answers that make me feel good about them as the future of our country, how about you?

What have you heard that impresses you and makes you feel like we are coming out of this economic disaster?

The Face of The Newly Unemployed

Video from YouTube by Bonnie

Some people are just starting their bout with unemployment. The terror you face. The uncertainty that is around every corner. The journey just begun, that may never end.

What would you do if this was you?  How would you feel if a job you'd been loyal to for years made the choice to cut you loose.  Not to retirement and a gold watch but to the uncertain life of being unemployed and over 50 in this economy. 

How will she feel after two months of unemployment? After a year. After two years. She is not alone. She has millions of other people out there in the same predicament. What will she do?  What would you do if this was you?