Today the Hastings and Havelock North Mail - one of our 3 free local weeklies - has a front page feature on being jobless in the Bay. An excellent series of articles, if somewhat depressing. There were a couple of personal stories to make it real (and hopefully scare up some job offers for them). The striking piece of news was that although the national average unemployment rate is 6.8%, here in Hawkes Bay we have 8.5% unemployment. And I guess that's just registered unemployed, let alone people like me who are also chasing jobs but aren't registered for the dole.
Sigh.
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