Navigating the unemployment maze
Reddit has become an “unofficial hotline” for the nation’s jobless, said Ella Koeze at The New York Times. On the increasingly popular subreddit forum, r/Unemployment, “post after post conveys bureaucratic problems with endless variations,” from frustration with “jammed phone lines” and “glitch-prone online portals” to questions about “what to do if you make a mistake on your claim.” The majority of those answering are “other out-of-work people” who can empathize with the concerns, although there are some on the forum who do work for state unemployment offices.
