I pit Poverty and the current economic crisis

[Sateryn76]

@Broomstick

That link takes me to Yahoo, not the Times.

The Times has contracted out their want ads to Yahoo - they are searchable by zip code. The one I linked to is for Munster; Gary has two pages worth.

@Broomstick

7 ads total does not make for “plenty”

Fair enough - but those are just the new listings. The Post-Trib has a poor website design, integrated with the Chicago Sun Times.

@Broomstick

Perhaps it was just a recent print edition, but last week I did indeed see paper editions of the local papers that were without want ads. Perhaps they had ads on their website, but that did me little good while waiting outside for over an hour in the cold without access to computer as I waited just to get in the door of the unemployment office. Perhaps someone had stolen the want ads from every copy of the paper at that newstand. All I know is that I couldn’t find a copy of the paper that had want ads in it.

I do not dispute that the economy is shitty, and I’m not trying to be snarky. But I’m very curious, and since we both know this area…

Why can’t you find a job? I know that our local papers are filledwith job listings. Granted, some of them are “nationwide” scam-kinda listings, but there are still many, many jobs. I am a paralegal, and out of curiosity, I always check the clerical/admin type of jobs. There are tons of them around here, and that’s just in my field.