What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"After I got layed off' my car got stolen and my house got robbed I cannot support my 3 kids. And this is the first time I not been able to make a dollar in my life I owe every body money. I would not be abel to live with out my familys help but that won't last much longer because every body I no can't find a desent job. My poor dad has all his kids back."
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"First of all, Not being able to buy + get what my family need's (I have two teenage daughter's) I can't afford higher school's or college. I cant buy a new car, or repair or even paint my house. Always's behind on our house payment and always's in need of new clothe's + furniture. I general no decent income, no vacation. We keep a low profile...We stay home! We can't do anything we like to do. Because we can't afford it."
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"Being out of work has hurt me and my family great dearly I cannot find work and it very it very hard and sad It like a bad dream Everything has gone wrong in my life. I am just barely holding on to life I stay very sad nowday because I cannot find a job It like a curse Please help me before it to late"
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"The layoff or being unemployed has robbed me of my self respect, my wife, my health, my apartment & More. Many doors have been closed in my face. Plans for my three young girls gone too pieces. Now my entire family lives with my parents 14 in one house hold No car (Reposed) No Privacy No Job No Health Insurance Many times I have thought of taking from another to aid mine (Breaking the law) But some one in my soul say wait it out To make thing worse I am a Veit Nam era Vet."
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"There were a lot of things I wanted to do for me and my family. Like worse effect on me and my family were we just wanted to live like average people. Just because of unemployment we are force to live like below average people. That is what worries me most of all and that is the worse effect on all of us."
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"There is no money, my spouse has supported the house hold since my lay off & ran out of unemployment funds, there is no extra money, no extra food & 1 car sold, no vacation or any other luxury. I have been seeking a job since my lay off with no luck every place you go it's no work, no jobs, or we are not hiring maybe later."
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"The bill collector are running me crazy. I am behind in all of them. The children are nagging each other and me because there is never enough money for anything. They said (and must) that they will be glad when I go back to work I have never been late with my house payment until now"
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.
What have been the worst effects of you being unemployed on you and your family?
"Loss of Home. Loss of Wife & Family, Loss of Friends, Loss of Self-Respect & Esteem, Depression & Anger, Feelings of Hopelessness"
All quotes come from a survey conducted by the Hull House Association and Steelworkers Local 65 of former workers of USX Chicago South Works completed after plant was shutdown.