Unemployment

I chose an article that talked about Crain communication that had to do thousands of lay-offs. Many mortgage brokers were layed of and forced to try and find a new job. Some of the men that were being forced to leave were competing against younger less qualified individuals for the same job. Some men tries to learn new languages to seem more qualified for the few jobs that remained. The Institute of Culinary sent letters to the Crain communication to try and get the people that had been layed off the change their areas of interest all together and go back to school. Although some did not agree that going back to school was the right option some chose that path.

Roger and Me was about how GM layed off 30,000 Flint residents. Many of the residents were forced out of their homes and put on the streets with their small children. They went bankrupt and didn’t have any other choice than to find ways to make extra money. Some decided to sell rabbits as meat and pets, some kept their jobs because they were the ones who were suppose to be kicking families on the streets. Some residents lived in their cars and some moved out of state to find new job opportunities. The residents that stayed in Flint tried their best to make Flint a trendy tourist attraction but after spending millions of dollars the town went bankrupt once again.

These two pieces were similar because they both had a negative effect on the people that once worked there. Both companies didn’t seem to care much about the people that had become poor and homeless. Both pieces showed that some people were not able to find new jobs. There were always the ones that stayed back trying to improve what was left over. In the end people took whatever jobs they could find, even if it was for lower pay than before.

"New lives for laid-off bankers; Workers reinvent themselves in hard market; back to school?(Wall Street Report)." Crain's New York Business 24.5 (Feb 4, 2008): 15. General OneFile. Gale. Northern Arizona University-AULC. 10 Feb. 2008 .