Surviving the Holiday Season Unemployed
Surviving the Holiday Season Unemployed It’s too easy to fall apart this holiday season. With the latest stay-at-home order, rising long-term unemployment and the looming end of the eviction moratorium in 2021, what exactly is there to celebrate? The holiday season in 2020 almost seems like an inconvenience or a joke — a time to panic and ponder the hopelessness of joblessness. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the number of long-term unemployed (those who are jobless for 27 weeks or more) increased from 3.5 million in October to 3.9 million in November, accounting for 36.9% of...