The human cost of unemployment

English: (The Depression) The Single Men's Une...

Having spent a few years unemployed under Thatcher and Major I can really feel for the people featured in this BBC article.

The quote from Ben Gillet sums up how it can be when you're in such a situation, it shows how alien this sort of existence is and how far away it is from what man needs.

"I have no routine, I have nothing to set my day by," he says. "It's sometimes light, it's sometimes dark, that's the passage of time as far as I'm concerned now."

Go read the article. Pray for change to their circumstance and for a change to the system that dumped them there.

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