A funny thing happened one day as I was out for breakfast in Saint Paul. Every now and then in the morning I would take a walk down the street and catch the first #21 bus to get myself an egg mcmuffin, hash brown, and orange juice at McDonald’s.
I would pick up the local newspaper the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and also each one of those freebie Employment Guide & Employment News publications and look through them while I sat down for breakfast.
This weekly issue of the Employment Guide was one of the smaller ones I had seen in quite a while. As I unfolded it I realized that it was only a four page issue. On further inspection, the pages were filled with only advertisements for job training in multiple fields: truck driver CDL training programs, a full page of medical assistance training advertisements, culinary training programs, online college courses, and GED classes.
What caught my eye was that there were no job listings! None whatsoever. Not one.
I was so surprised by this that it prompted me to make the following sarcastic status update on my Facebook page when I got home:
I just picked up the new issue of the Employment News. The unemployment rate in the Twin Cities must be at zero because there are absolutely no advertised jobs.
The recession is over!
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