Meanwhile, let's not forget our own problems
Stuck on the Wrong Side Of the Economic Divide
By Susan Yuzna
Sunday, April 18, 2004; Page B03
SAN FRANCISCO
I never expected to find myself in this position in my mid-fifties -- single, jobless and without health insurance. But that's where I've been for the past 23 months -- just one of the 5.7 percent unemployed over whose predicament President Bush and his presumptive Democratic opponent, John Kerry, have been jousting.
With a master's degree and 10 years of teaching experience, I'm not yet prepared to give up on the ambition that propelled me 15 years ago to pursue my dream of becoming an English professor. But, before I resign myself to waiting tables or cleaning other people's houses, I'm getting some humbling insights into the lives of the chronically unemployed. I'm beginning to discover what a very scary way of life theirs is. And, believe me, it's a way of life that other well-educated Americans could suddenly face.
