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Mama Told Me Not to Come: A Day in the Corridors of Medical Bureaucracy

By jeffinalabama, Section Diaries
Posted on Tue Aug 02, 2011 at 06:11:10 PM EST
Tags: Cancer, unemployment, health insurance (all tags)
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Bureaucracy exists in every field, from government to medicine to education. Yet medicine will be at least the point of the spear in this diary.

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The New American Reality of Long-Term Unemployment and Destitution

By Jacob Freeze, Section Diaries
Posted on Sun Aug 02, 2009 at 04:22:41 AM EST
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As illustrated by this (slightly improved) graphic from the New York Times, long-term unemployment (as a percentage of the workforce) has now outrun all previous recessions since this data began to be collected in 1948, and even more bad news is lurking under the numbers.

At the height of unemployment in 1982, one of every five unemployed workers was on a temporary layoff, with the expectation they would be recalled, sooner or later. Today the comparable figure is 1 of 10.

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