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The unemployment rate in 2020 is currently 6.7%
https://www.statista.com/topics/778/unemployment/

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The number of long-term unemployed people in the United States is 3.94 million.
https://www.statista.com/topics/778/unemployment/

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The average length of time that someone is unemployed averaged 21 weeks.
https://www.statista.com/topics/778/unemployment/

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The unemployment rate has fallen from 15% in 2010 to 6% in 2020.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/193254/unemployment-level-in-the-us-since-1990/

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The dad lost his job at Battle Mountain, keeping his job the longest previously ever. A whooping six months. This overall inconvenienced the family with poverty, affecting Jeanette in a negative manner.

"Bad news," Lori said one day when I got home from exploring. "Dad lost his job." Dad had kept this job for nearly six months-longer than any other." Pg.67

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Rex Walls never really was the same after the death of Mary Charlene, this added to the overall theme of Rex losing any job he gets. This again put the family in a precarious situation of constantly moving around and being poor.

"Mom said dad was never the same after Mary Charlene died. He started having dark moods, staying out late and coming home drunk, and losing jobs." Pg.28

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After spending time in Phoenix Rex was getting antsy and eventually starting to lose his job again. This inconvenienced the family with poverty, forced them to move again.

"It was around this time that Dad lost his job. He said there was nothing to worry about, because Phoenix was so big and growing so fast that he could find another job at a site where they hadn't spread lies about him. Then he got fired from his second job and from his third, and was kicked out of the electrician's union and started doing odd jobs and day work. Pg.110

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The stereotype of a dumb, drunk person. Who constantly loses their job due to not putting in the necessary effort to succeed in life is a common stereotype of the unemployed.

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The presumed thought that the unemployed are generally dumber than the general population is a common stereotype.

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Despite being born to consistently poor and unemployed parents, who often neglected their children and put them in dangerous situations. Jeanette Walls has become a wealthy journalist who is married, happy, and overall very content with the state of her life. Working very hard she overcame her childhood living conditions.