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Most depressing news of the week

June 7, 2010 on 2:42 pm | In Economy, Law, Politics, Random | 1 Comment

There’s a lot to be depressed about in the news recently. Earthquakes. Sink holes. Oil spills. But the worst news I read all week is that job recruiters are refusing to even accept employment applications from the millions of people in this country who are unemployed through no fault of their own.

This does not make any sense at all. It’s simply mean spirited. I have to wonder how Glenn Beck could rationalize this.

Some people have said they’re doing it to weed out all of the applications they get from people who don’t want to work, but still need to send out applications to keep their benefits. But that plan wouldn’t work, in fact it’d have the opposite affect. By telling people who don’t really want employment that you’ll never hire them, you’re ensuring more of those types of applications.

I’m not one to propose new laws, but I really think that employment discrimination against the unemployed should be illegal.