For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't think I know anyone who has a steady job in Montreal.
Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.
There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.
Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
I've been at the very bottom of poverty, and it's not so bad. It's even kind of interesting. You can live there with a certain amount of style.
In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.
There is a false assumption about the Parti Quebecois that we don't know anything about the economy... Well that's a myth.
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