Thursday, March 19, 2009
News The big hurt: Georgia unemployment hits historic heights
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Late last fall, Sam Warren lost a client who’d fallen on hard times. That client was the state of Georgia.
The 52-year-old consultant and Powder Springs resident, who made his living writing operational manuals for corporations and government agencies, learned the state was instituting a “hard freeze” on outside contracts. Warren, who says never in his life has he left one job without another firmly in place, started making calls to drum up more business. Then he made some more calls.
Now, friends who told Warren in November that they’d try to help him secure work are looking for work themselves.
“It’s dry,” he says. “Dry and dead.”
Last week, Warren was among the estimated 19,000 people who packed into the Georgia World Congress Center to compete for what’s beginning to seem like an impossible find: a job.
Read the rest of this feature here.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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