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Getting fired sucks, but it’s a little bit comforting to know that some of our favorite actors get fired sometimes too. Not in real life! No, they’re getting million dollar movie offers all the time even during a recession. We mean in movies. In movies, actors play characters who, like us, get fired sometimes. Sometimes [...]

As the national and global economies continue to tank, we suspect that movies about people being fired will become increasingly unpopular, unless writers and filmmakers keep coming up with ways to make such touchy subjects so enjoyable. Just look at all the excellent films about facing unemployment featured on Screen Junkies’ listicle of the 10 [...]

Yesterday was Labor Day, which we found out was actually originally a Canadian holiday sparked by labor disputes in Hamilton and Toronto in the 1870s. American labor leader Peter J. McGuire was visiting Toronto in 1882 when he came across one such celebration, and decided to import the idea to the U.S. He organized the [...]

We took part in a pretty incredible interview once. Our interlocutor seemed really interested, enthused and responsive every time we asked a question, we were funny, clever and – dare we say it – dashing. We were convinced that between our sexy new suit and relaxed but not unkempt demeanor it would be one of [...]

If Detroit is ground zero of our current financial disaster, then Kevin Bauman is one of its most committed documentarians. Since the mid-90s he’s been taking photographs of abandoned houses in his hometown, while its population has fallen by over one million. His website 100 Abandoned Houses highlights the most beautiful (and depressing) results of [...]

Something that hadn’t dawned on us until just now: with stable, wage-earning jobs becoming ever-more scarce, will we suddenly see a sharp increase in dubious and unfounded lawsuits? If so, you’d better get creative because there’s no telling who’ll take you to court over an issue so trifling you that didn’t even know it was [...]

About a week ago we pointed you towards a listicle of New Depression photography, and since then bad financial things have continued to happen. It seems that many people getting laid off – at least those not brawling on the street in the middle of the afternoon – have become photographers.
This is convenient, as there [...]

If the Obama administration is acting like a bit of a national therapist these days, then Business Week has the listicle of its most needy clients (we hear they charge on a sliding scale). Compiling a reverse-quality of living index, BW has ranked America’s 10 Unhappiest Cities based on suicide and depression statistics, crime and [...]

On this lovely sunny morning we learned that the U.S.A. has reached a 7.2% unemployment rate, a 16-year high. Though our souls immediately turned to despair and we sank our sorrows into an Irish coffee and a playlist of movies about economic hardship, we slowly realized that unemployment is one of the most vital trials [...]