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Debra O'Brien and Fred Watson arrive in Hamilton City, New Zealand, with Michael McCullum to visit his unemployed sister in a parallel world. But, in this world, there is no unemployment benefit. The unemployed have to live on the street and rely on the city mission and begging for food.… Read More

Tags: poverty, homelessness, unemployment, multiverse, parallel-universe

Poem / Poetry

January 27, 2018

Reads: 123

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Tags: victory, unemployment

Short Story / True Confessions

August 01, 2017

Reads: 294

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Unemployment is the most evil thing in the world Read More

Tags: unemployment, youth-unemployment

This essay is about how increasing the minimum wage will inevitably lead to an increase in unemployment. Read More

Tags: economy, jobs, income, unemployment, minimum-wage

This article is a non-political investigation into links between issues around housing, unemployment and Government finances in the UK. A simple solution, based on statistics rather than emotive policies, may be the answer - Zero Corporation Tax Zones. Read More

Tags: facebook, google, income_tax, amazon, unemployment, thom_goddard, cllr_thom_goddard, corporation_tax, housing_crisis, direct_tax, zero_corporation_tax, onshore_atoll

Every now and then our lives are controlled by our emotions, our passions, our lusts and desires. Quite often they lead to unhappiness and self destruction. Read More

Tags: love, anger, magic, jealousy, girlfriend, crush, black, smoking, spite, prostitutes, unemployment, jekyll, hyde, hash, alochol

A brief discussion about the facts concerning banning High Capacity Magazines and Assault look alike weapons and the results of doing so. Read More

Tags: children, trees, school, high, military, guns, education, government, hurt, grief, gun, kill, future, fathers, mothers

Poem / Poetry

December 24, 2013

Reads: 292

Comments: 5

The Booksie Classic House

Just another pointless day uttering the same pointless half-facts Read More

Tags: history, pride, country, unemployment

Poem / Humor

March 13, 2013

Reads: 463

Comments: 5

The Booksie Classic House

LIFE AFTER WORK Read More

Tags: work, sucks, unemployment

Essay / Non-Fiction

February 24, 2013

Reads: 349

Comments: 1

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It is about the pangs of unemployment Read More

Tags: poverty, anxiety, etc, gloom, trials, unemployment, torrents, tribulations

I wrote this essay for my MACRO economics class. It deals with unemployment and the young students that will have to deal with it. Myself included... Read More

Tags: society, college, capitalism, students, unemployment

This Hindi Poem, sort of satire, tells how a youth fed up of unemployment started a fantasy website to sell fantasies online & made it his profession Read More

Tags: unemployment

Poem / Poetry

January 17, 2013

Reads: 177

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The two major political parties in this country conspire with the rich against the rights of the poor. Read More

Tags: evil, poverty, hopelessness, unemployment, liberal_party, canberra, alp, fascism_in_australia, labor_party, fascist_elite, tax_the_rich

Unemploymant is the biggest issue In India among the Educated Mass.Through these poems I want to highlight this issue in front of My government so that they can take some actions. Read More

Tags: unemployment, phase

This poem indicates the grief of an unemployed youth who migrates to another country in search of a job. Read More

Tags: grief, unemployment

A LOOK AT RECESSION AND UNEMPLOYMENT Read More

Tags: suicide, collapse, credit, businesses, banks, recession, unemployment

about food bank in clay cross Read More

Tags: family, food, life, happy, night, eyes, people, am, help, listen, talk, spirit, work, job, jesus

Poem / Poetry

April 28, 2012

Reads: 326

Comments: 9

The Booksie Classic House

This is a feeling I had felt when I suffered a partial layoff a few years ago. It wasn't even unemployment. My company just dropped my hours to sometimes 16 hours per week. I was depressed, but it could have been worse. The economy was globally in shambles, and many… Read More

Tags: love, depression, family, tears, pain, strength, sadness, poverty, crying, recession, unemployment, activism

A reinterpretation of the Faust myth. Read More

Tags: addiction, alcoholism, faust, self-destruction, nihilism, unemployment, futility, nicotine

Life on state benefits, with surprises. Read More

Tags: father, son, unemployment, bankruptcy, audio-version, handouts

Inspired after conversing with a group of Cuban refugees at a second language school. Read More

Tags: world, affairs, cuba, unemployment, refugees, louisville

A diamante-style poem about the horrors of modern-day unemployment. Read More

Tags: despair, poverty, helplessness, failing, desperation, beaten, pleading, hopelessness, downtrodden, begging, unemployment, the_forgotten, belittled, degraded

A song I wrote in the late 1970s. Read More

Tags: poverty, helplessness, suffering, hopelessness, unemployment, working_class

While backbenchers in Australian politics get $131,900 a year tax-free, the unemployed get less than $12,000 to live on. If this is insufficient CentreLink will laugh in your face as you beg for help. And unlike other countries, if you cannot pay your rent and move into the streets in… Read More

Tags: despair, poverty, helplessness, desperation, homelessness, hopelessness, destitution, unemployment, centrelink

An early existential poem from the late 1970s. Read More

Tags: depression, despair, poverty, helplessness, hopelessness, unemployment, stagflation

"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours." ~ Harry S. Truman 33rd President of the United States 1945-1953 Read More

Tags: depression, social, american, act, justice, taxpayers, recovery, labor, reserve, recession, unemployment, bank, federal, services, reinvestment

A poem about the hopelessness of life in Melbourne's we3stern suburbs. Read More

Tags: life, people, winter, poverty, helplessness, street, hopelessness, elderly, existentialism, unemployment

The last of my Smith/Bennett unemployment stories. Read More

Tags: poverty, unemployment, mainstream, australiana, australian_fascism

Another of my Smith/Bennett/Mayron unemployment stories. Read More

Tags: erotica, mainstream_fiction, poverty, unemployment, australiana, australian_fascism

Perhaps the best off my Smith/Bennett/Mayron unemployment stories. Read More

Tags: mainstream_fiction, poverty, unemployment, australiana, australian_fascism

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