Compounding the situation, there are few places for newly unemployed Democratic staff members to go.
Many of the newly unemployed A-12 workers are far less sanguine.
Maybe some of them were office workers, but others could have been among the newly unemployed.
Those same people have to compete with the newly unemployed who are better trained.
The local was holding some sessions on benefits available to the newly unemployed workers, and I went to listen.
And some of the newly unemployed in Washington are actively seeking such positions.
But unemployment insurance will be available, often, for these newly unemployed intellectuals.
The number of people jobless for less than five weeks, the newly unemployed, fell by 13,000.
"We're used to this," said countless members of the newly unemployed.
With 500,000 newly unemployed, the potential for a social explosion remains very high.