{"id":44554,"date":"2014-06-12T02:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/aip_unemployment_is_a_spiritual_problem\/"},"modified":"2014-06-12T02:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T02:30:08","slug":"aip_unemployment_is_a_spiritual_problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44554","title":{"rendered":"(AIP) Joe Carter&#8211;Unemployment is a Spiritual Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 2011 study of the long-term unemployed published by the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University also found that half of participants experienced shame and embarrassment that led them to isolate themselves from friends and associates. Among the long-term unemployed, 31.1 percent reported spending two hours or less with family or friends the previous day, versus 21.5 percent among short-term unemployed adults.<\/p>\n<p>Long-term unemployment is not just a mental health crisis; it\u2019s also a spiritual crisis. And the church is the only institution in American that can adequately respond. \u201cFortunately, the church is in a unique place to explain Christ\u2019s restoration of work,\u201d\u009d says Michael Jahr, \u201cthe meaning of suffering, and the hope and peace that result from putting our trust in him.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.acton.org\/archives\/69573-unemployment-spiritual-problem.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2011 study of the long-term unemployed published by the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University also found that half of participants experienced shame and embarrassment that led them to isolate themselves from friends and associates. Among the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44554\">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":[48,39,40,175,149,168,597,184,177,108,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44554","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=44554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}