The unemployment rate and other technical terms used to describe the impact fail to capture the anguish and human toll of the economic tsunami.
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Like a tornado, it strike swats within communities and industries leaving many staggering and drowning in a sea of debt and despair.
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One powerful tool that we do possess to battle the sinking feeling of despair is hope.
Hope is said to give energy to the mind to explore the possibilities of a new day. Hope stays the course even when doors are slammed, and phone calls are not returned.
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Putting a face to and sharing the odyssey of the journey from joblessness to employment can hopefully inspire those of us in the unemployment vice.
Click and listen to a journey from despair to hope.
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We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or give our anguish scope.
Something was dead within each of us,
And what was dead was Hope.
“I am grateful for all of my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.”
— J.C. Penney, businessman
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How can we further share hope beyond misery?
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