• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    17 days ago

    Exact same situation at my job, which is to help unemployed people. They are stuck between benefits and shitty temp jobs with no working rights basically. Just one day you’re in, one day you’re out.

    On paper these people are working but it’s vastly different than having a stable job. And with the reforms on their way, these people will soon lose their benefits in between their job.

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      17 days ago

      Is there any statistics reporting or data on the amount of people who are in positions like this? I get that it’s somewhat hard to quantify, but honestly it is deeply frustrating to see chuds and libs both plug their ears as they look at household salary and employment rates as the golden calf of working class well-being.

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        17 days ago

        I think you can get statistics depending on what parameters you use. My office averages around 3000 people passing by each month. Most of them are passing by each month to reclaim benefits.

        Those 3000 people are not included in statistics for long term unemployment because technically they work from time to time. Long term unemployed people don’t visit us because they don’t need to update their files. And this is just 1 office. My city alone has five, for example. Just from our instance. There are three different instances just like us with their own offices.

        Sadly I don’t think hard figures can be pulled from somewhere right now but I might inquire management to see if it can be done. Would be interesting to see.

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          17 days ago

          It doesn’t help that the way the U.S actually wipes numbers for “unemployed” off the board after a certain period of time too. Literally obvious number-tilting.

          Would be interesting to see.