Still the sad facts in the USA

The Sunday evening famous 60 MINUTES program just had the first part on the sad facts that in the USA there is still 38 THOUSAND a WEEK, who have run out of unemployment checks - their on food stamps, and often have to count on friends or relatives for physical survival, a roof over their heads and etc.

These are people who have been out of work for 2 or 3 years. These often the educated, College, University educated people. These are often people in their middle age, having had good responsible jobs for years.

There has come about since 2008 an organization called "Platform to Employment" started from donations and company sponsored money. It is to help these people change their mind-set, which after 2 or 3 years without work, hearing no,no,no, all the time, have become depressed, often loosing confidence in themselves, thinking they are failures.

Trying to put myself into the shoes of people out of work after years of happy successful work, and having a difficult time getting back into the working world, I can see it must be depressing and take the upbeat confidence out of a person.

Platform to Employment organization is having great results in giving back to people the confidence and power of mind to know they are still the person they once were (when working successfully) and many from this course have found work. The Platform to Employment cannot promise people a job after taking their course, but it at least brings people back to the realization they are still the person they once were. And in this situation of the USA trying to move back to where it was before 2008, is still a fine platform for people to be on.
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60 MINUTES also brought out a "smash between the eyes" on the Drug Industry and anti-depressant drugs by ... well this one guy, who kinda started the hit on them, and others agreeing. Britain looking into it all has changed their National Health System on the matter.
Bottom of the line - all the anti-depressant drugs may only have a decent effect on the VERY serious depressed people. Well it is best you look at the clip of it all on the Internet and the 60 MINUTE program, to see it all for yourself. All these "investigative" programs you can find on the world-wide web - just "Google" 60 MINUTES.
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