California Unemployment Quake. NYT article in more info

Ageism, Sexism, Racism. How are we going to survive these? When I had to apply for food stamps last year, the first three of us in line were women over 35 with a bachelor degree, and NOT fluent in Spanish. Our home State has abandoned us. Reading the Web last night I found that the unemployment figures go up as income goes down. So those making 150K and above have 3.9 unemployment rate. For those at 20K and below, it is more like 51 percent. We have had a lot of shakeups here lately, just under us, in the ground. It is worrisome, a bit, as the San Andreas is right behind me in this video. .But when the unemployment runs out, the shakeup will be catastrophic. There is no welfare for folks without kids. It is called “Aid to Families with Dependent Children.” There isn’t even any General Relief now. An acquaintance who had been in hospital more than two years on and off with diabetes, gangrene, congestive heart failure, kidney failure, could not even get approved for 100 dollars a month to live on after he was discharged. Some women on employment forums admit they are already living in cars with their dogs, quietly. These women took care of the homes, husbands, child-rearing, caregiving, and all the real estate offices, the law offices, the schools, the hospitals, the county offices, the corporate money-gatherring of the 80s and 90s, and now are left with nothing. Shame on California, and shame on employers. NewYorkTimes February 21, 2010 The New Poor Millions of Unemployed …