Unemployment
Sir, — The economic costs of unemployment receive too much attention. The real expense to our society is the emotional cost of unemployment. The human impact of unemployment upon the individual and upon the community warrants more concern. It affects us all, regardless of our skills at covering it up and ignoring it. The impact of growing demands on pyschiatric and counselling help, on family and personal relationships, on social services, on the diversion of medical and policing resources, is known, but seldom given the recognition it deserves. We are rightly concerned with balancing our. economic books. What, I wonder, will balance the everincreasing number of plummeting self-images in the ledgerbook of emotions? — Yours, etc.,
ROY WILSON. August 16, 1982.
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