21st June, 2020.
Right …
I’ve officially released part two of my Digital Poverty pieces …
I’m hoping it goes down well!
However? I don’t know who it was that left the comment: but I’ll repeat what you said, here. It raises a good point. However, I deleted it: as you didn’t leave a name. Please, feel free to put it up, again … but leave a name, if you could: I’d appreciate seeing that.
“I have a friend who has been actively looking for a job for the last eight months. Our local job centre has told her she doesn’t need to keep a diary of job applications during this crisis, her payments won't be affected. Fine and dandy, except she wants to find a job but has no online access. She occasionally used the library, but those computers were often busy, so she'd use our computers and internet. But neither option is available to her at the moment.She was very distressed that the job centre’s attitude seemed to be one of “aren’t you lucky, you don’t have to bother job hunting for a while.”
The comment does highlight the point of the piece, though.
If you’re out of work, don’t have ’net access at home, and can’t use public access points?
You can’t hunt for a job: whatever the Job Centre says about it.
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