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I agree, I think your reporters could have selected better candidates to interview for retrospectives on the declining economy. My daughter, her boyfriend, my grand-daughter and myself make it on just a little more than the first couple. Part of me wants to assume that $750 a week is a typo, because $3000 a month is more than enough for 2 to live on.
Giving the car back is not that simple for the person who made that suggestion. Unfortunately, that is called a voluntary repo, you still owe the amount of the loan, they sell the car at auction and what ever is not paid for on what you originally borrowed you still have to pay, only now you don't have a car. I did this once many years ago thinking it would better.
Also, my estranged husband is a construction worker, so I understand the electrician's hesitancy at working at City Center, there has been an inordinate amount of deaths on that project and as the family member of such no amount of money is worth that stress or getting the news that he suffered one of those tragic deaths. He is right it has been nicknamed "City Cemetary", cause something is definitely not right there. But, they need to take a reality check, you can't have it both ways. Time to give up something, sell something, move back, something.
I manage a restaurant, and there are days I want to give up, but you can't if you want to take care of business. For that matter that's any job. Are there plenty of jobs out there,in Vegas? No, there aren't. But both subjects could do with a good hard look at what they want to give up to survive. Americans are spoiled, I know I'm one of them. I just had the cable turned off, cause we just don't need it and we save almost $1500 a year. That's a lot of money that can go for other stuff.
The job fairs, yeah there's lots of them, I've gone to them myself when I was looking for work years ago, never got hired. So, sorry it ain't that easy.
Another way they both could go is Temp agencies, available for all types of work, they are always sending people out to work, and are always looking for new workers. It's how I got my current gig almost 4 years ago, and I got on permanant with Stations because I was able to get my foot in the door.