{"id":10602,"date":"2009-01-09T03:20:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/unemployed_in_michigan_grow_frustrated_by_long_lines_for_benefits\/"},"modified":"2009-01-09T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T03:20:06","slug":"unemployed_in_michigan_grow_frustrated_by_long_lines_for_benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10602","title":{"rendered":"Unemployed in Michigan grow frustrated by long lines for benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tip: Get to the unemployment office before 3 p.m. After that, the doors are locked and nobody gets in.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, it didn&#8217;t really matter, though. The one-story office building at 3391 Plainfield Ave. NE was crammed with hundreds of jobless people, from the counters to the double-glass doors out into the parking lot.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 3 p.m., you would be the 637th person in line. Soon, another 10 or 20 more people would shove in behind you before the security guard locked the door.<\/p>\n<p>This is the face of unemployment in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/grpress\/business\/index.ssf\/2009\/01\/unemployed_in_michigan_grow_fr.html\">Painful stuff.  Read it all<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a tip: Get to the unemployment office before 3 p.m. After that, the doors are locked and nobody gets in. Tuesday, it didn&#8217;t really matter, though. The one-story office building at 3391 Plainfield Ave. NE was crammed with hundreds<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10602\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}