unemployment

The unemployment rate still moved higher.

I'd hate to think that when someone has lost their job their also faced with a possible divorce. In the past that often happened, however is it true today? When Penn State sociology professors Paul Amato and Brett Beattie began studying the repercussions of unemployment on marriage in the aftermath of the Great Recession, they expected to find that joblessness destabilizes marriage.

Jobs are back! Just not for everybody. Think the college kids are having trouble finding jobs? The middle aged are having just as much hard luck. More seniors are working and younger people are more skilled, so that soaks up the jobs and doesn't leave much for middle aged people who have bigger needs for their established families...