The Jobless Need a Fair Shake, Not a Cold Shoulder (Letter to Boston Globe's "Letters to Editor" Department - Oct. 17, 2011) I’d like to share an experience I had a job fair in Roxbury recently, which I think highlights today’s economic climate, and how ignorant some companies are. While I was speaking with an employment recruiter at a table, a woman in her 50s at the table next to me got told by a company representative, “You have been unemployed for too long to be considered for employment.” I ran into this woman on my way out and told her what I heard, and she gave me her life story: She’d been out of work for two years and had lost basically everything.
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If we as a country are to get out of this unemployment crisis, how can companies deny the unemployed jobs based on their status as unemployed? There are thousands, if not millions, of people who have been out of work for months or years through no fault of their own. Who is the cause of this decades-old maxim of "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer"? America's conglomerates' uncaring capitalistic practices serve as a legitimate basis for valid arguments of all Communist regimes. Employers can’t bury their heads in the sand and pretend this problem doesn’t exist or will somehow disappear on its own. This cruel and abusive practice needs to end for the sake of hard-working and desperate Americans. Anne Griffin-Dorchester, MA
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