Have you lost your job? Are you standing in line with literally dozens of people applying for unemployment benefits? It’s pointless to say that your situation is not uncommon. Government data last week showed that employers cut another 467000 jobs in June and the US unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, its highest since August 1983.

With almost ½ million jobs gone, the financial stress on the individual and families, is mind-boggling. The burden on our government to help support our fellow citizens are just about breaking at the seams. The number unemployment insurance claims are still on the rise. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the new name for the federal Food Stamp Program as of Oct. 1, 2008. Is the government attempting to breathe new life into an old program? Food banks are serving more and more people in need.

In these hard economic times, we have to pull together and help each other anyway we can. We hear or even know of people who open their homes and their hearts to those who no longer have a home. The barter system is used throughout the country. People who once shopped in the malls are content to shopping at thrift stores. Prices of goods and services have down in some cases and up in others. We eat out less, go to the movies less, and travel less.

It doesn’t matter why or how this all happened anymore. The focus should be on solving this dilemma. Too many fingers are pointing. People are playing the ‘Blame Game’. This is unproductive. Our energies should be used to find our way out. How many of us complain about our situation instead of improving it?

Jobs are out there. It may not be a position you see yourself in permanently. We need to ‘Just Get By’ until the storm is over. This blog is to help you find a job. The resources found here are intended for you. Make the best of them.