In this final episode of “Laid-Off,” we find our hero Odd Todd trekking out to Hollywood to try his hand at creating a TV show.

From the blog Layoff Moveon, this post on Top Ten Things That Enrage. So you’re cruising through life at a comfortable speed. Wham, bam. your pink slip is served. Suddenly there are things in life which you never thought would piss you off. #1 PEOPLE WHO ASK HOW I’M DOING in case you’re wondering, “not [...]

Living With Le$ is an online comic strip about a Wall Street money manager who loses his job and has to move back in with his parents. Start here then read all 36 episodes to date.

Here’s a post we dug out from late 2008 from a blog called “Life after my Layoff” and sub-titled “The economy stole my journalism job, but not my love of writing.” I watch “Avenue Q”…and nearly cry in my seat Last weekend, my boyfriend treated me to a showing of Avenue Q, a raunchy Broadway [...]

On Sunday, former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay defended Sen. Jim Bunning’s recent blocking of an unemployment benefits extension.

From the The Huffington Post:

Some reaction from various sites:

From Hullabaloo

I would guess that this is going to catch on among the dittoheads. The right is reasoning that they can appeal to a good number of the majority who are employed and make them question why they should subsidize all those losers who are not. It worked with health care. Empathy for your fellow man, or even a selfish sense that you might personally need some assistance someday, is being attacked by the right wing head on. And I would guess that there are more than a few people who secretly have thought these things but didn’t have the social support necessary to say it out loud. Now they do.

This isn’t a widely accepted point of view. Yet. But its infecting the body politic.

Time for another animated episode of Odd Todd’s “Laid-Off.”

“Come Thursday, February 24, I will be making my way on the streets of Orange County as best I can, and I will be considered that most stigmatized of people – a homeless woman.” “Whereas it used to take me a matter of days to find employment, it is now rare for me to even [...]

As we posted earlier, a certain amount of grudging and jealous admiration is held by some Democrats for Republican Senator Jim Bunning, who is standing on principle by single-handedly blocking an extension of unemployment and COBRA benefits. However, if you are one of the couple of hundred thousand who is being immediately denied these funds, [...]

Found on Reddit’s IAmA section, in which the rules are “Post what you are and have people ask you about yourself.” The initial post is called “I was once a homeless meth addict,” written by an individual who was laid off then experienced depression and drug addiction. The ensuing discussion touches on numerous psychological, sociological, [...]

The blog Girl on the Brink chronicles the day-to-day existence of “a professional, divorced urban mom,” laid off and “panicked, desperate and going-for-broke.” From last October 11, or Day 189 of her unemployment. Manifesto of the Idle Workers of the World We are more than 15 million individuals in the prime of our lives who [...]