“I’m drowning in my own agony. I don’t know what to do anymore… I truly feel abandoned by this country”
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos: Getty Images Erin Young hadn’t eaten in four days. She was waiting to certify her eligibility for an extra $300 a month in unemployment benefits, called Lost Wages Assistance, announced by Donald Trump on August 8. She hadn’t worked since March. Now, it was September 15. Young had stayed up all night refreshing her California employment account home page.
Meridel Le Sueur wrote in 1932 that she saw hunger “like the beak of a terrible bird at the vitals” in the breadlines and soup kitchens of the Great Depression, when unemployment rates reached 24.9 percent. There was no government welfare state at the time. Just under a century later, we have something called unemployment insurance. Now the breadlines have mostly moved out of sight, with hundreds of thousands of people on hold for hours with benefit representatives.
But r/unemployment is an orderly, well-lit place compared to the rest of Reddit, where conversations are typically crude and unmanaged. Its moderators run it with temperance rules: no swearing, no memes, no trolling. “Remember the human,” regulations say. They do not allow posts of phone numbers or emails, lest they be reported as “doxxing” by Reddit administrators.
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