{"id":27459,"date":"2011-07-25T21:04:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/why_jobless_rate_is_still_so_high_work_is_on_way_in_sc\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T21:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T21:04:33","slug":"why_jobless_rate_is_still_so_high_work_is_on_way_in_sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27459","title":{"rendered":"Why jobless rate is still so high: Work is on way in South Carolina, but complex factors at play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen Corey&#8217;s unemployment benefits may run out in September, if she doesn&#8217;t qualify for a second extension or find a job before then. She has $6 in her wallet and 15 cents in her bank account for the next three weeks after her rent check clears.<\/p>\n<p>The Mount Pleasant woman has been laid off since fall 2008, except for a temporary stint working for the U.S. Census, and she is desperate to find work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to be busy,&#8221; Corey said. &#8220;I want to be so busy. It drives me crazy to sit around. I cannot sit and watch TV.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/25\/why-jobless-rate-is-still-so-high\">Read it all from the front page of the local paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwen Corey&#8217;s unemployment benefits may run out in September, if she doesn&#8217;t qualify for a second extension or find a job before then. She has $6 in her wallet and 15 cents in her bank account for the next three<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27459\">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":[40,54,582,589,149,597,151,619,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459","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=27459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}