Why are ppl unemployed? I spent one week trying to find...?

a second job and got one easily, yet I pay tax dollars for welfare programs for those who "can't find a job." I only have a high school diploma ( i am a college student and 26 years old) and granted my job is only an 8 dollar an hour part-time job. Is it that these people are not trying hard enough and sucking away my hard earned money or is there another EXCUSE they can come up with? I'm tired of people complaining and not DOING anything about it.
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Until you have walked a mile in someones moccasins.

You know, there is a such thing as a healthy unemployment rate, and that is 4%. That means the chronically unemployed are unemployed. When it rises above that, it means that the talented people are unemployed.

I live in Oregon, we have the second highest unemployment in the nation. There are simply more people needing to work, then there are jobs. Last week I posted a job that pays 18-20 dollars an hour. And people that were making close to 6 figures a year were applying for it. We simply don't have enough jobs in this state.

So you should talk to some people who are truly talented, and have worked in a stable career for the past 20 years who suddenly find themselves unemployed. You'd probably change your tune.
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Many areas do not have the retail or commercial areas, so looking for a job means traveling an hour or more. Poor and without a car makes that difficult. Some people have never received any training in how to apply for a job nor do they even have the minimum of skills to do so.
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People receiving unemployment benefits will not take a job paying less that what they are making on unemployment. Would you give up $320 a week to make $160 a week?
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maybe at 8 dollars an hour it is hard to support yourself and kids and a wife don't judge so harshly you never know your future