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Why unemployment shame leads to isolation

I have been unemployed for eight months and I started lying to people about having interviews just so they would stop giving me advice about networking.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social stigma around economic failure forces performative hope that increases actual disconnection from potential support.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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