We should not have to live ‘on the edge’
June 9th, 2009 by 2CDC
letter in Daily Local News, 6/9/09:
Statistics say that nearly 10 percent, one in 10, of Americans are unemployed. Those figures hide those who have stopped working, those who run their own businesses and are suffering, and many millions more. Another recent statistic revealed that, in Pennsylvania, Chester County has the fastest growing rate of unemployment. All around us, our families, friends, and neighbors are suffering, often in silence. This is the suffering amongst us that is not reaching the newspaper pages or the airwaves.
As I write this letter in the very early morning, thousands of people in Chester County are lying awake worrying about either having lost or keeping their jobs, finding new ones or figuring how to make ends meet on meager government subsidies and rapidly diminishing savings, worrying about how to get medical treatment when they cannot afford it or what to pay for today — medical treatment or food or utilities or rent or the mortgage or the car payment — worrying about how to explain to their children their rapidly deteriorating lifestyles and the preparations they must make for new lives as they leave the middle class. Read the rest of this entry »
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